» Wordpress.com Banned by International Judge

So according to this post by Lorelle from Wordpress, a judge in Brazil is banning / blocking ALL WordPress.com blogs regardless of language because some idiot posted a YouTube video of a couple of having sex.

The material in question violates WordPress.com Terms of Service (if it doesn’t.. it should.. Im not a wordpress.com user so I’ve never read their TOS).

So Lorelle is asking.. why aren’t more people talking / blogging about the issue at hand? Why does it seem that no one is concerned?

My first question isn’t why aren’t people concerned.. my first question is… how did YouTube allow this video to go live in the first place? I’m almost certain adult content is not allowed on YouTube. So what’s up with that.

So why not ban YouTube instead? Right! Like that would ever happen. If I were the lawyers for WordPress.com.. I’d be appealing this and drag Google into it because that’s where the problem started.

To speculate on why more people aren’t blogging about it, my guess would be that a lot of WordPress.com users are probably saying to themselves.. so what if I can’t reach Brazil? Or maybe people view it like spam and blacklists.. use a free product and deal with being at the mercey of what others around you do. It’s guilt by association.

My 2 cents!