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Google in deal with Brazil to fight child porn – Yahoo! News: “Wed Jul 2, 2:46 PM ET

BRASILIA (Reuters) – Internet search company Google signed an agreement with Brazilian public prosecutors on Wednesday to help combat child pornography on its social networking site Orkut, an accord that the company believes is the first of its kind internationally. “

Under the agreement, Google will use filters to remove and prevent illegal content on Orkut, which has about half its users in Brazil. The company will also facilitate evidence gathering under judicial order in suspected crimes against children and teen-agers on Orkut without the need for international legal accords.

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Brazil: Wordpress attorney blogs about the blocking:

Marcel Leonardi [pt], the Brazilian attorney who is representing Wordpress in the case of a possible ban on the platform in the country, blogs: ‘In the motion filled by the Automattic Inc. [on Monday], among other pieces of information, it has been highlighted the tremendous damage that the blanket ban would cause, and other possible ways of implementing the ban to the said blog in Brazil have been proposed.’ See the background info.

(Via Global Voices Advocacy.)