I read in two e-publications about a 20-year-old convicted for racism practices in a relationship site in Brazil. He had harassed a 13-year-old African-Brazilian, posting this boy's photo in different places in the site, with racial slurs as captions. He called African-descent brazilians monkeys and filthy.
He thought he could not be traced. He was. His lawyer said he was insane. The government doctors double-checked on his insanity. He could stand trial. He was sentenced to five years in jail.
Contrary to the USA, where racism isn't considered a crime in the same severe terms as in Brazil, it is one of the clearly mentioned Internet crimes in Brazil. Nazi groups, racist, xenophobes, pedophiles, anti-gay, all of these are criminal acts no longer invisible to Brazilian authorities.
It is too bad the vandals and criminals have been ignored for so long. In this case, it took almost a year and a half for this guy to get sentenced. I hope the Internet becomes a safer place and vandals be punished soon. I wonder what MySpace will become like. In its very beginning Google's orkut was pretty cool. No longer so.
May justice prevail.
Google orkut crime
Subscribe to:
Post Comments (Atom)
2 comments:
I can't speak (write) english, but I agree what you said. Brazil isn't so unpunisher (there is such word?!) than we people like to say...
oh... what a mess! I really can't speak... droga!
by SidSad
Meaning --There isn't as much impunity as people in Brazil want to believe.
hehehhe... Thanks.
Post a Comment