• orkut

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

    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?

    10:00 AM on Thu Apr 24 2008
    By Nicholas Carlson
    325 views, 4 comments

    Latest by Bornean: @bugz321: Voluntary. vol·un·tar·y. done, made, brought about, undertaken, etc., of one's own accord or by free choice: a voluntary contribution. more »

  • quotable

    Vinod Khosla gave Brazilian slave-labor employers a thumbs-up

    When asked about his his $200 million investment in an ethanol startup in Brazil, where corruption is rife, labor standards lax and the environmental track record abysmal, investor Vinod Kohsla replied, "We have a very professional management team." Those responsible for actually cutting the cane might tend to disagree after being subjected to inhuman working conditions which some activists describe as "slave labor."

    1:20 PM on Tue Apr 1 2008
    By Jackson West
    331 views, 4 comments

    Latest by digginestdogg: He comes from a country with huge sanitation, health, literacy, and child labor exploitation problems. And you are shocked he's more »

  • cleantech

    Vinod Khosla's Brazilian ethanol venture uses slave labor, just like most Valley startups we know

    The Brazil Renewable Energy Company, or Brenco, was the target of the Brazilian Labor Ministry's slave-labor investigation unit last month. Brenco produces ethanol from sugarcane, which is more carbon-efficient than corn-based ethanol but incredibly labor-inefficient — cane farming is some of the hardest work on Earth. How did the company, backed in part by Vinod Khosla's VC firm, address this inefficiency? By paying workers less than a dollar an hour, packing them cheek-to-jowl in substandard living conditions, preventing them from leaving the unsanitary housing on their free time, feeding them poorly, and (rather ironically for an ethanol manufacturer) banning alcohol. More »

    1:20 PM on Fri Mar 28 2008
    By Jackson West
    1,003 views, 9 comments

    Latest by matto: @Fidel on the Roof: I had Automotive Industry Cabal vs. Military Industrial Complex at even money- thanks for flipping the more »

  • brazil

    Brazil charges Google millions for hiding accused Orkut criminals

    A Brazilian judge gave Google 15 days (as of yesterday) to deliver the data of Orkut users accused of illegal activity. Google's social site, a failure in the U.S., took off in Brazil, apparently attracting the child pornographers and hate-speech writers that the governement is now chasing down. More »

    11:29 AM on Fri Sep 1 2006
    By Nick Douglas
    425 views, 2 comments

    Latest by anand: Orkut isn't a disaster everywhere. Orkut is to India what MySpace is to the US. more »

  • susan decker

    Morning news: Blue Frog croaks

    • Sun promises to make Java open source. It will be the loss leader for a lovely set of Sun steak knives. [VNUnet]
    • Blue Security dies. USA Today publishes graph showing the Blue Frog mascot being slowly cooked. [Washington Post]
    • "I wouldn't take that so literally." — Yahoo CFO Susan Decker, about projected revenue of $4.6 billion to $4.85 billion. Apparently those numbers were metaphorical. [CNN Money]
    • Napster almost made money this quarter. Who'd have thought that an RIAA-approved walled garden piggybacking off the brand recognition of a stick-it-to-the-man filesharing network wouldn't be a cash cow? [CNET]
    • Oh, looks like the Internet is just for child porn. At least on Orkut. [Bloomberg]

    9:42 AM on Thu May 18 2006
    By Nick Douglas
    81 views, Comment

  • google

    Google invades Brazil

    Sergey and Larry flew to Brazil this week, scouting out the country that invaded Google's Orkut. Google wants to expand services in the developing nation, saying that the "lack of legal, cultural and censorship barriers" makes it a great spot to work. Maybe so, or maybe Google just wants to get close to the only people who liked Google's social network site. More »

    2:52 PM on Tue Jan 31 2006
    By ndouglas
    187 views, Comment

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