View Full Version : Google prohibits anonymous comments on Orkut


Toofan
04-18-2009, 08:29 PM
Orkut announced this Monday which prohibited the publication of anonymous comments in social networking communities - before it was possible to publish texts in the forums without having the profile identified by other users.

The big news coming in courtesy Reuters is that Google has decided and has already implemented the decision to kick out the option of posting anonymous posts and comments in orkut communities. According to Google, which controls the service, the goal is to provide more "transparency to the content of the site and generate" more useful conversations and balanced. " "Instead of quality posts, we have seen much spam and abusive comments from anonymous users", says the company on notice. Google says that the block reaches the new ideas and that the former remain in the air "at least for a while."

According to Google, it is not directly related to the TAC (Terms of Adjustment of Conduct) signed by the MPF-SP (Federal prosecutors in São Paulo) to combat child pornography on the Internet. One of the clauses of the term requires that the company preserve the data on criminal and social network send through judicial decision.

"This kind of comment gives an impression of anonymity that is not true, since there is no anonymity on the Internet," said Felix Ximenes, communication director for Google Australia - even those who post text in this way was subject to screening and punishment in case of failure.