Google Brazil chief arrested over YouTube video

7:25 am | Thursday, September 27th, 2012

In this November 22, 2011 photo, Google executive Fabio Jose Silva Coelho poses for a portrait in Sao Paulo, Brazil. Google Inc.’s head of operations in Brazil was detained by the country’s federal police Wednesday, September 26, 2012 after the company failed to heed a judge’s order to take down YouTube videos that the court ruled violate Brazilian electoral law. The detention came as another court ordered YouTube to remove clips of an anti-Islam film that has been blamed for deadly protests by Muslims around the globe, both joining a spate of court-ordered content-removal cases against Google’s video-sharing website in Brazil. AP/Carol Carquejeiro, Agencia O Globo

SAO PAULO—Police announced Wednesday the arrest of the head of Google Brazil over his refusal to remove YouTube videos that allegedly slander a mayoral candidate.

But as the crime that Fabio Jose Silva Coelho is accused of has “low potential to offend,” he will not remain in custody, federal police said in a statement.

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Tags: Brazil , Fabio Jose Silva Coelho , Google , Internet , politics , Youtube

Norodin

I wonder if their government had to ‘Cybercriminalize Libel,’ just to make this arrest.

Bamm Gabriana

Libel is libel regardless of which medium it is published. The solution is to decriminalize libel. There is no point removing libel from the cyber law if libel as a crime still exists. In fact, one only needs to print a web page and it magically turns into a printed publication.

Norodin

Perfect… Libel should still remain a crime for moral reasons… but the actual applicability of libel in the internet defeats the purpose of libel laws as a weapon to protect individual human dignity and oversteps the right to communicate and express ones opinion or grievance…

Just demand for the right to privacy with the aid of a lawyer and get a Public Relations expert to deal with the Striesand Effect that follows? I’m sure future filipino lawyers and judges would have a field day hammering out their rhetoric and legalese when they take on a case of online libel.

Google Brazil chief arrested over YouTube video

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