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Brazil releases Google executive in video row
Police have released the head of Google Inc’s Brazil operations after his detention for not taking down a YouTube video a judge ruled violated local electoral law.
A police spokeswoman said on Thursday Google’s most senior executive in Brazil, Fabio Jose Silva Coelho, was released after agreeing to appear in court at a still undetermined date.
A Brazilian court had ordered YouTube to remove the anti-Islam video that prompted violent protests across the Muslim world, just as an elections court separately ordered the arrest of Coelho after the popular video-sharing service failed to remove another, unrelated video attacking a mayoral candidate.
Oh for heaven’s sake Brazil, just stay out of it. Pull your internet cable out of the wall and put your head under the covers.
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As I posted somewhere else about this, Google should just drop service for all of their products to Brazil for a few days to a week. The fall-out from that would get someone’s attention that this action by a brain-dead judge is not a good idea!