BigDave - 9:04 pm on Jan 13, 2007 (gmt 0)

If this is over the Orkut and YouTube issues, the Brazilian Government has a weird way of punishing Google.

Even if a lot of the smaller Brazilian publishers aren't getting paid, and they drop AdSense, the big guys will figure out how to get paid in other jurisdictions. AdWords users are still going to keep paying Google, even if it is just for ads on Google and on foreign sites.

So basically they are stopping incoming money and pissing off their own citizens.