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Brazil: Bank Account of Google Blocked Due to “Offensive” Blogs

Categories: Latin America, Brazil, Freedom of Speech, Politics, Technology

The courts in the Brazilian state of Ceará blocked access to $140,000 in the accounts of Google Brasil after the company refused to take down a series of blogs deemed offensive toward the mayor of Várzea Alegre, José Máximo de Carvalho, reports [1] the blog Journalism in the Americas .