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Brazil: Taking the piss of election regulations

Friday, June 6th, 2008 @ 21:36 UTC

by Paula Góes

Countries:: Brazil
Topics:: Freedom of Speech, Cyber-Activism, Elections, Humor, Photography, Software & Tools
Languages:: Portuguese

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Brasil: Gozando da regulamentação eleitoral...

Rodrigo Alvares [pt] publishes an amusing picture of a banner in support of Ivan, The Terrible for São Paulo's council. Note the mention of Orkut, YouTube and other social media tools. With heavy sarcasm, because of the latest developments of elections regulations that saw bloggers having to delete banners, the Brazilian blogger says: “I want to see the Justice fining or censoring this one”.

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# 2008-06-15 at 18:03 pm

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