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É curioso, mas alguns dos posts mais visitados e comentados neste blog são os posts em que falo da máquina de pão que compramos há pouco mais de 1 ano. A maioria dos comentários é de gente perguntando onde encontrar mais receitas para a máquina.

O interesse gerado me fez criar uma lista de e-mail para usuários e simpatizantes da máquina. A lista começou devagar, ficou muitos meses com tão pouco movimento, que achei que a lista ia morrer, mas nos últimos dias a quantidade de membros começou a crescer bastante, e agora há movimento na lista praticamente todo dia. :)

Houve sugestões de catalogar as receitas que são trocadas no grupo. Para isso, eu e a Kátia criamos o blog maquinadepao.com, com receitas para máquina de pão. Além das receitas publicadas, há links para outros lugares onde é possível encontrar mais receitas e dicas.

Boa parte dos comentários nos meus posts era de gente que nem mesmo leu os outros posts, onde já havia ponteiros para a comunidade no Orkut e para o manual da máquina da Britania. A idéia é que as pessoas que antes encontravam os posts no meu blog e não sabiam onde encontrar receitas, agora encontrem o material no maquinadepao.com, junto com os ponteiros para os outros lugares onde é possível encontrar mais informação.

Internet Censorship caused by a judge that doesn’t know how to write

The conclusion of the Internet censorship story is that the judge that ordered the blocking of YouTube cancelled the order. In the document that cancels the previous blocking (in portuguese), he alleges that he never asked the complete blocking of the YouTube site, but only the videos showing Daniela Cicarelli. But this is not what was written on the order he sent to ISPs (in portuguese). The order doesn’t mention any specific video, and asks explicitly that ISPs implement filters to block packets from reaching the YouTube servers, or block packets coming from YouTube servers.

So, now we can say that this country is in another list: the list of countries where judges don’t know how to write.

Desembargador precisa de aula de interpretação de texto e redação

Agora o desembargador responsável pela censura ao YouTube volta atrás, e ainda diz que nunca solicitou o bloqueio completo do YouTube. Claro que não. Imagina. Claro que ele nunca pediu o bloqueio de todo o site.

A grande questão é: como alguém assim chega ao cargo de desembargador?

Brazilian ISP block on YouTube is really due to a court decision

According to brazilian media, the brazilian ISP Brasil Telecom officially confirmed that YouTube IP addresses are blocked on its backbone due to a court decision.

On my last post I’ve said that I was just waiting to see the explanation for the block, from Brasil Telecom. Now we can confirm that it is not just a screw up on their part, as commented on Boing Boing.

So we can confirm it: Brazil is now in the list of countries where the State uses mechanisms for Internet Censorship.

Fortunately, I haven’t seen any report of other ISPs implementing the same block, yet. So I see two possible ways this story will continue:

• Other ISPs don’t implement the block. Brasil Telecom will not like to have the competitive disadvantage of not providing access to a popular site while other ISPs still provide it. Brasil Telecom, users, and other ISPs fight against the court sentence. We win.
• Other ISPs implement a similar block. We become China. Censorship wins. We lose.

To be continued…

Brazil experimenting Internet censorship mechanisms

Brazil is making some experiments that may show the viability of implement Internet censorship mechanisms country-wide. As already noticed by others, YouTube was ordered to shut down by a brazilian judge, some days ago.

It is asked on the linked post: “I’m not sure what the Brazilian court intends to do to enforce this ruling, since YouTube (and its parent company, Google) are based in the US. Will they take steps to try and block access within Brazil?”. The answer seems to be: yes.

There are reports (some info in portuguese) that at least a major ISP in brazil is blocking access to YouTube. As a reader comments on the post, “it is still possible that this is just some sort of screw up on their part” (I hope so). Or, as a a user report says, it may be just that the ISP is “taking advantage of the hype on the case of the model having sex fun on the beach to lower their backbone utilization by blocking one of the main bandwidth-consumer sites.”. I am curious to know how this story will end.

I really hope this will demonstrate that this kind of Internet censorship in Brazil isn’t viable. But unfortunately this shows that the Brazilian Kleptocratic State has some disposition to become China, and that in our country a celebrity’s public image is more important than people’s freedom and ability to easily communicate (not that the court decision really help to change her public image).

By the way, the video that originated all of this is available on Google Video. Don’t expect to see interesting scenes on it.