Wednesday, September 26, 2012

Aa> judge ordered the arrest of José Fabio Silva Coelho to download videos from YouTube attack a candidate for mayor

A Brazilian judge has ordered the arrest of the CEO of Google in the country after the company failed to download videos from YouTube attack a local candidate for mayor.

Google appealed the order to arrest Jose Fabio Silva Coelho, following a similar decision earlier, another election judge in Brazil. In this case, a judge has found a senior executive responsible for the violation of the law local election. This decision was overturned last week.

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on Google's liability for the content uploaded by others to their websites, an anti-Islam video that sparked a wave of protests and violence in the world Muslim.



A spokesman for the Regional Court elections in the Brazilian state of Mato Grosso do Sul, said Tuesday that the judge ordered the arrest of Coelho, executive officer of Google in Brazil, unless videos that attack a mayoral candidate have been removed.

"Google appealed the decision which ordered the video removed from YouTube, since, as a platform, Google is not responsible for content posted on its website," the company said a spokesman in Brazil.

detention orders against the leaders of Google after the filing of criminal charges against Chevron Corp and Transocean Ltd. and March 17 of its employees and executives, in a case that showed the provision of systems of justice Brazil to target senior alleged misdeeds.

prosecutors, who have almost total independence to make the case of Brazil, seeking prison sentences up to 31 years for which the result of an oil spill in November. Chevron is the No. 2 U.S. oil company. Transocean is the world's largest operator of oil rig offshore drilling.


few days another judge revoked the arrest warrant Balthazar wrote that "Google is not the mastermind behind the video, do not send the file, and for this reason can not be punished for its spread. "



The company also defended the political rights of users in a statement at the time.

"Google believes that voters have the right to use the Internet to express their opinions on political candidates, as a form of full exercise of democracy, especially during election campaigns" wrote Corporation.
Google faces legal limits examination of expression frequent users in Brazil, where he opened an office in 2005.


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