As I had mentioned earlier this week, the violent attack against gay student Ferrucio Silvestro generated a series of homophobic communities on Orkut. O Globo Online reports today about one specif Orkut community created recently and called "Ferruccio devia ter apanhado mais" (or Ferrucio should have gotten beaten harder), which had already been brought to my attention by readers of this blog. The community, which had up to 233 members and included topics such as "kill them all" and "what would you have used to beat him up?", has already been removed from Orkut at this point, but a specific profile still remains up there. It is called "Homens De Bem," identified by a skull, and this is the link for it. Today I urge you to write to Google and Orkut to have the profile removed. As much as I promote freedom of speech, stating that all gays should be eliminated is crossing the line.
You can read more of the current online discussions about the case here. Some of the homophobic comments written there are truly shocking, and prove that we still have a long way to go in this country.
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