Brazil: Taking the piss of election regulations

Posted 6 June 2008 21:36 GMT

Countries	Brazil
Topics	Freedom of Speech, Elections, Humor, Photography, Technology, Digital Activism
Languages	Portuguese

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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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