.com/live/articles/about_google.asp>in a defamation case lodged by the Cent=
re National Priv=E9 de Formation a
Distance (CNFDI) in a suit which claimed the search engine's 'Suggest'
feature linked the organisation to the word 'scam'.
> The Mountain View giant has been ordered to take necessary measures to
remove this suggestion from its search functions, according to French legal
site Legalis.net. [1]
If most people think a fraudulent business is fraudulent, Google can't
report that consensus (at least in France, whether they apply it generally
is yet to be seen). Indeed, the keyword doesn't even indicate that, it onl=
y
indicates that people were asking whether or not it was a scam. It's a
ridiculous extension of libel law.
I notice that all keyword completions have been removed from cnfdi today
(except .com).
Tragically, big internet businesses (both Google and Facebook) are driven
not by the superset of freedoms to be found somewhere in the world but by
the subset that all countries accept. Facebook has to censor nudity becaus=
e
of a New York decision and make your friends list public because of a
Canadian decision. It's just too difficult (technically and legally) to do
other than apply the restriction to everyone.
My fantasy is that the big companies buy a small country somewhere, put all
of their servers there, and say "fuck you" to Big Brother everywhere.
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