Leonardo Fontes [pt] on the piece of news that Wordpress may be blocked in Brazil after a court decision ruled that one specific blog was to be closed down. “Brazil is the country of the “undiscussed”, in every single day it becomes clear that the thing to do is to put tails between legs, lower our heads and let any authoritarian measures go as though it were something in life, an inevitable “it is God who wants this.”
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Hi, Paula.
The discussion on the wordpress.com blocking in Brazil is spreading the Brazilian blogosphere. Good idea to talk about that on Global Voices too.
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