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Google ceases to protect its Brazilian users' right to child porn

Nicholas Carlson · 04/24/08 12:00PM

Felix Ximenes, Google's chief flack in brazil, yesterday gave the Brazilian government DVDs containing information on 3,261 allegedly child-lusting users of its social network Orkut. "With the information we have received, we will be able to strike a major blow against the pedophile network acting in the country," Brazilian Senator Demostenes Torres told the Wall Street Journal. Last August, the Brazilian government said Google refused to turn over information about users accused of hate speech and pedophilia. What's Google's excuse for taking eight months — they couldn't find the data?