Canadian Business Online | January 21, 2011
SAO PAULO (AP) – Brazil’s top appeals court says Google cannot be held liable for all content posted on its Orkut social networking site.
The court has ruled against a Brazilian woman who was seeking an unspecified amount of money for being the object of what she claimed were written insults from other Orkut users.
Officials did not release the woman’s identity or the nature of the insults.
The court says that the woman essentially was asking Google to censor all material posted on Orkut, which it considered impeding freedom of speech.
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