A Brazilian judge has ordered Google to pay 5,000 reais ($2,847) to a woman for not removing offensive comments about her posted on the Orkut website.<\/p>\n
Judge Marco Aurelio Froes ruled in Rio de Janeiro Wednesday that the US-based company was liable because it did not remove the postings on the social networking site.<\/p>\n
Froes said Google was not to blame for the statements, but it should have pulled the postings when the woman asked that they be removed due to their \u2018offensive\u2019 content.<\/p>\n
Google did not remove the postings until the court issued an initial order in favour of the unidentified plaintiff.<\/p>\n
The US tech giant was initially ordered to pay 10,000 reais ($5,694), but Froes said in his latest ruling that the sum was \u2018excessive\u2019.<\/p>\n
Google\u2019s public relations firm said the company did not have a comment because it had not yet reviewed the ruling.<\/p>\n
Source : IANS<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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