{"id":26226,"date":"2011-08-31T10:56:05","date_gmt":"2011-08-31T09:56:05","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.indexoncensorship.org\/?p=26226"},"modified":"2011-08-31T10:56:05","modified_gmt":"2011-08-31T09:56:05","slug":"brazil-courts-block-bank-accounts-of-google-brazil-for-refusing-to-take-down-offensive-blogs","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.indexoncensorship.org\/newsite02may\/?p=26226","title":{"rendered":"Brazil: Courts block bank accounts of Google Brazil for refusing to take down &#8220;offensive&#8221; blogs"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Courts in the <a title=\"Index on Censorship - Brazil\" href=\"http:\/\/www.indexoncensorship.org\/newsite02may\/tag\/brazil\/\" target=\"_blank\">Brazilian<\/a> state of Cear\u00e1 have <a title=\"Knight Center - Courts block bank accounts of Google Brazil for refusing to take down blogs deemed offensive toward mayor  \" href=\"http:\/\/knightcenter.utexas.edu\/en\/blog\/courts-block-bank-accounts-google-brasil-refusing-take-down-blogs-deemed-offensive-toward-mayor\" target=\"_blank\">blocked access<\/a> to 140,000 USD in the accounts of Google Brazil after the internet giant refused to take down a series of blogs with content deemed &#8220;offensive&#8221; toward the mayor of V\u00e1rzea Alegre. The blogs in question accuse the mayor of corruption and diverting public funds, although no sources have been cited for the accusations. The mayor has reportedly said the blogs&#8217; anonymous messages smear his image.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Courts in the Brazilian state of Cear\u00e1 have blocked access to 140,000 USD in the accounts of Google Brazil after the internet giant refused to take down a series of blogs with content deemed &#8220;offensive&#8221; toward the mayor of V\u00e1rzea Alegre. The blogs in question accuse the mayor of corruption and diverting public funds, although [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":57,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_et_pb_use_builder":"","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","_mi_skip_tracking":false},"categories":[584,585],"tags":[7396,3725,64],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.indexoncensorship.org\/newsite02may\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26226"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.indexoncensorship.org\/newsite02may\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.indexoncensorship.org\/newsite02may\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.indexoncensorship.org\/newsite02may\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/57"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.indexoncensorship.org\/newsite02may\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=26226"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.indexoncensorship.org\/newsite02may\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26226\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":26245,"href":"https:\/\/www.indexoncensorship.org\/newsite02may\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26226\/revisions\/26245"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.indexoncensorship.org\/newsite02may\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=26226"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.indexoncensorship.org\/newsite02may\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=26226"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.indexoncensorship.org\/newsite02may\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=26226"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}