Twitter has caught some flack in other countries for giving accounts free reign on what they can tweet. Twitter responded that it’ll adjust its policy to include the ability to censor tweets if a country demands it to. We just might see Twitter’s first high profile case sooner than later because Brazil just sued Twitter for allowing accounts to tweet where DUI checkpoints are. More »
The alarm goes off. You roll over, bleary eyed and turn it off. You sigh — it’s another day of work. You pick up your smartphone — it’s 6am, but you decide you should probably check what important emails have come through overnight. You respond to a couple of urgent requests before stumbling out of bed and hopping in the shower. And if you were in Brazil, you’ve just earned yourself a nice little bit of overtime… More »
Agent Orange is a forest-clearing herbicide that killed over 400,000 people during the Vietnam War. Almost 40 years later, ranchers in the Amazon region of Brazil are still using the substance to illegally clear out 440 acres of rainforest. More »
LulzSec strikes again. The hacker’s latest target is the Brazilian government. A tango down alert was issued by LulzSec brazil for the two government domains, presidencia.gov.br and brasil.gov.br. Both sites are out of commission, presumably by a DDOS attack.
