Orkut may close, according to Attorney General RJ

The Attorney General of the State of Rio de Janeiro filed a civil action against Google, citing the social network Orkut, the most popular in Brazil, "would become the scene of illegal and criminal conduct." The action, which states that among the offenses are "crimes against honor, inciting crime, pedophilia, impersonation, among others," may result, in extremis, at the close of Orkut in the country.

The agency believes that, although unable to give the company the crimes committed by users, Google is co-responsible from Orkut because problems happen "because of failures in managing the system." The prosecution says the company has no efficient mechanism for content control, stopping to check the identity of those who access your service.

Google has 120 days to take action that would prevent the crimes committed on Orkut. In the list of measures are maintaining records of IPs and user access in communities, developing a system to identify profiles, communities and pages dedicated to pedophilia and crimes, including marking of fights between supporters of rival sporting clubs, communicating the existence or suspected presence immediately to the State. A system with keywords would be created to facilitate the search for these topics.

In case of failure of the measures, the attorney requires that "the service offered by Google and the site is interrupted suffer a fine of not less than $ 100 thousand per day." The lawsuit filed in the 10 th of Treasury of Rio de Janeiro has asked that it be held a media campaign, including newspapers, radio and television in prime time, with the aim to alert parents and caregivers about the risks of using the Internet and Orkut.

Google says it has not yet been notified of the existence of action and because of that, is not commenting. Sought by G1, the company said it "reaffirms its commitment to respecting the Brazilian legislation."

The company also said it "offers technology platforms to millions of people can create and share their own content and that the abuse of freedom of services that violate the rules of use of services that are clearly stated on their Web sites are subject to termination by users. "

"When a content clearly hurt those rules, it is automatically removed. Where there is doubt, requests should be evaluated by the judiciary, "says the note sent by the Google G1. (Source: G1)

Source: CapitalNews

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Now see if you have a logical end ... so cool service like Orkut pq uses a SMALL portion of the site so wrong?

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