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Please beware that is good practice to actually read an article before commenting. "A judge has ordered the arrest of the president of Google's operating...". I

Please beware that is good practice to actually read an article before commenting. "A judge has ordered the arrest of the president of Google's operating...". In just the second word, the article lets you know that it was someone in the judicial power making the decision and giving the order. Not the executive. And it is also very clear that the reason for the arrest was not the videos, but the decision from Google to commit a crime by not obeying a very specific order form a week before: hardly a base to conclude that it was a "corrupt decision". So, not a corrupt decision, and not from the Brazilian Government. The rest of your post is only a diatribe against Brazil, where you show your feelings but not a single fact, idea or reasoning. Come on man, this is not what HN should be for, and you are a valuable member of it; we both know you are way better than this comment. I guess passions sometimes are stronger than ourselves.

DigitalSea 14y ago
I did read the article before commenting. A judge is employed by the Government, it's his or her job to uphold the law, making decisions that aren't in the bests interests of an entity or themselves. The judge in this case is obviously upholding Brazils backwards law when it comes to censorship and free speech. Quite to the contrary, Brazil and the US have far from identical judicial systems. If you have the money in Brazil you can get anyone into trouble who has offended you where-as in the US and other places it's not as easy because the US judicial system fortunately for you and others is not nearly as corrupt.
- hazov 14y ago
  Yes, the Brazilian legal system is based on civil law and the US one is based on common law, they work differently for example. This is not the first decision against Google in this election and will probably result in nothing for Google and their president and workers, I have a couple of friends working in Google Brazil and life is the same as before, there's no police in the door of their building harassing them, if everything else fails he could appeal to the Supreme Federal Court who judges matters of constitutional issues, including free speech and complication involving this basic right. Brazil does not have free speech as in the US, the legislation is almost the same that exist in France and a couple of other European countries for example, you cannot open a website containing hate speech, hosting neo-nazi websites is illegal in Brazil, hosting terrorism related websites is illegal in Brazil, the list follows, I prefer this way although I see value in the American system. Following HN for such a long time I saw a couple of comments about how the legal system in the US also sucks and how the legal system there is a mess, nothing different from, people here in São Paulo generally idolizes the American criminal law and how it's easy to put people in jail for long times or even applying capital punishment, which does not exist in Brazil, with a exception in military justice in times of war, and yet I saw more than one discussion of how this same system in the US sucks right here on HN some months ago. There's a point in the last paragraph, why are you generalizing? Are you a expert in comparative international law? If not I do not see how your opinion matters or how your last paragraph is valid, I used to be a grad student in the US I got the impression that Americans are over litigious and that the justice system generally benefits the rich who can pay better lawyers, not much different from here in Brazil, but that is just pure personal experience, I'm not a lawyer, I am a statistician. Must I say then that the US judicial system is corrupt? I don't think so, personally I would love to live in a world where judges are not necessary but we know that this won't happen. And by the way in Brazil a judge is employed by the state not by a government.
  - hazov 14y ago
    Just to give a heads up, the guy was in fact detained. This is shit and I wish this judge to go to hell.
Dylan16807 14y ago
What world do you live in where the judicial branch of government is not in the government.
- olh 14y ago
  "In many countries, the term "government" connotes only the executive branch." [1] [1] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Executive_(government) http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Executive_(government)
  - Dylan16807 14y ago
    That is amazing. Why do even the simplest of nouns end up with divergent and easily confused definitions. And I still mean the question I asked, but without snark now. Where is pitiburi? Brazil, somewhere else? Wikipedia doesn't list what countries have this form of the word or give any way for me to look up the etymology.

DigitalSea 14y ago

I did read the article before commenting. A judge is employed by the Government, it's his or her job to uphold the law, making decisions that aren't in the bests interests of an entity or themselves. The judge in this case is obviously upholding Brazils backwards law when it comes to censorship and free speech. Quite to the contrary, Brazil and the US have far from identical judicial systems. If you have the money in Brazil you can get anyone into trouble who has offended you where-as in the US and other places it's not as easy because the US judicial system fortunately for you and others is not nearly as corrupt.

hazov 14y ago
Yes, the Brazilian legal system is based on civil law and the US one is based on common law, they work differently for example. This is not the first decision against Google in this election and will probably result in nothing for Google and their president and workers, I have a couple of friends working in Google Brazil and life is the same as before, there's no police in the door of their building harassing them, if everything else fails he could appeal to the Supreme Federal Court who judges matters of constitutional issues, including free speech and complication involving this basic right. Brazil does not have free speech as in the US, the legislation is almost the same that exist in France and a couple of other European countries for example, you cannot open a website containing hate speech, hosting neo-nazi websites is illegal in Brazil, hosting terrorism related websites is illegal in Brazil, the list follows, I prefer this way although I see value in the American system. Following HN for such a long time I saw a couple of comments about how the legal system in the US also sucks and how the legal system there is a mess, nothing different from, people here in São Paulo generally idolizes the American criminal law and how it's easy to put people in jail for long times or even applying capital punishment, which does not exist in Brazil, with a exception in military justice in times of war, and yet I saw more than one discussion of how this same system in the US sucks right here on HN some months ago. There's a point in the last paragraph, why are you generalizing? Are you a expert in comparative international law? If not I do not see how your opinion matters or how your last paragraph is valid, I used to be a grad student in the US I got the impression that Americans are over litigious and that the justice system generally benefits the rich who can pay better lawyers, not much different from here in Brazil, but that is just pure personal experience, I'm not a lawyer, I am a statistician. Must I say then that the US judicial system is corrupt? I don't think so, personally I would love to live in a world where judges are not necessary but we know that this won't happen. And by the way in Brazil a judge is employed by the state not by a government.
- hazov 14y ago
  Just to give a heads up, the guy was in fact detained. This is shit and I wish this judge to go to hell.

Dylan16807 14y ago

What world do you live in where the judicial branch of government is not in the government.

olh 14y ago
"In many countries, the term "government" connotes only the executive branch." [1] [1] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Executive_(government) http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Executive_(government)
- Dylan16807 14y ago
  That is amazing. Why do even the simplest of nouns end up with divergent and easily confused definitions. And I still mean the question I asked, but without snark now. Where is pitiburi? Brazil, somewhere else? Wikipedia doesn't list what countries have this form of the word or give any way for me to look up the etymology.