Brazil sues Twitter over roadblock warning posts


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Twitter said it would begin deleting users' tweets in countries that require it, and now

the government of Brazil has filed a lawsuit against Twitter, demanding the micro-blogging site suspend the accounts of users who tip drivers off to police roadblocks and radar traps.

The suit, filed Monday in a federal court in Goias by the attorney general's office, also targets users who blow the cover of police lying in wait. The government is seeking fines of 500,000 reais ($290,000) for each day that Twitter or traffic whistle-blowers fail to comply.

"It looks like Twitter built it, and they came," said Eva Galperin, an activist with the Electronic Frontier Foundation, which defends free speech and privacy online....

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