Orkut one of the worlds biggest social networking sites can have it’s operations shut down back in Brazil. This was one of the major headlines of Brazil’s biggest newspapers and technology related blogs back in April 2008.

According to the issue was related to the number of kidnaps, sex-predators, drug dealers,  and  pedophiles. The article says that whole issue is that Orkut Management is obstructing the act of justice when it denies to give the user information to the Police. The article also says that Orkut Management will give these information if a judicial order is presented. Well this is the whole mess and it seens not be over yet.

After that  some changes have happened in Brazil with Orkut. Acording to another newspaper, Google would have moved all Orkut Management back to Brazil (August 2008) and some drug dealers that used Orkut as a business area, where arrested (Jully 2008).

Why this is so big of happening? Well Brazil holds almost 54% of Orkut users (source: Wikipedia) and almost 26% of all Orkut traffic come from Brazil. Shutting down Orkut in Brazil can mean shutting down Orkut worldwide. If I think it is going to happen? No, but there is more of this battle to came and as soon as I get an update I will post it here.

So, do you think Google will shut down Orkut operations in Brazil?