البرازيل: اعتقال مدير جوجل لعدم إزالة الفيلم الأمريكي المسيء

- خبر من مصادر إنجليزية.

اعتقلت الشرطة البرازيلية "فابيو جوس سيلفا" - المدير التنفيذي بشركة "جوجل البرازيل" - لعدم قيام الشركة بتنفيذ الحكم القضائي الذي صدر مؤخرًا بإلزام الشركة بإزالة الفيلم الأمريكي المسيء، ومن المتوقع أن يتم إطلاق سراحه عقب التوقيع على وثيقة تؤكد التزامه بالخضوع أمام المحكمة.

وتأتي هذه الخطوات في إطار القوانين الانتخابية البرازيلية التي تنظم وتحدد مساحات النقد التي يمكن للأفراد تبادلها عبر الإنترنت والتلفزيون والإذاعة، وفي إطار أحكام سابقة من بينها حكم قاضٍ بولاية "بارانا الجنوبية" بتغريم جوجل 500 ألف دولار يوميًّا لصالح أحد المرشحين لتقاعس الشركة عن إزالة أحد مقاطع الفيديو التي تخالف قانون الانتقاد.

وقد أعلنت شركة جوجل أنها بصدد الطعن على الحكم، مشيرًا إلى أنها تعتبر وسيطًا لعرض المحتوى وغير مسؤولة عن المحتوى الذي تقدمه عبر موقعها. المصدر: شبكة الألوكة.

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Brazil Detains Google Chief over Anti-Islam YouTube Clip

Brazilian authorities detained the country's Google chief after the company failed to remove YouTube videos that the court ruled violate Brazilian electoral law despite a judges order.

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.

The arrest of Google executive Fabio Jose Silva Coelho was announced in Säo Paulo. A press release issued by the federal police said he was not expected to remain in jail and should be released later in the day after signing a document promising to appear in court.

Brazil's strict electoral laws limit what critics can say on television, radio and the Internet about candidates for office. Ahead of municipal elections next month, Google has received repeated requests to remove Web videos that allegedly violate those restrictions.

A judge in Mato Grosso do Sul state ordered Coelho's arrest Tuesday because the company had not removed YouTube videos that make incendiary comments about an alleged paternity suit aimed at Alcides Bernal, who is running for mayor of the city of Campo Grande. That ruling also included a statewide, 24-hour suspension of Google and YouTube. It was not immediately clear if and how that aspect of the ruling might be carried out.

Google said Tuesday that it was appealing the decision. "Being a platform, Google is not responsible for the content posted on its site," the company said in an emailed statement from Sao Paulo.

A judge in the southern state of Parana earlier ordered Google to pay $500,000 for each day that it balked at fulfilling an order to remove other videos criticizing a candidate. In the northeastern state of Paraiba, a judge ordered the imprisonment of another Google executive in Brazil, also for not removing videos from YouTube attacking a mayoral candidate, but that order was overruled by a higher court.

Eva Galperin of the Electronic Frontier Foundation, which promotes digital freedom, said the rash of Brazilian cases was "disappointing, but not surprising" ahead of the country's nationwide municipal elections on Oct. 7 and Oct. 28.

"The Internet is global, but laws are made nation by nation," she said. "There is a struggle between nation states and their laws and the freedom of expression policies of companies that host content all over the globe."