Google's Canadian 'memory hole' to continue Google – and arguably free speech – has suffered another “memory hole” setback in its Canadian wrangle with kit vendor Equustek Solutions, and in response has begun taking down links well beyond Canada where the court case is taking place. As we reported in June, the court battle involves Google only incidentally. Equustek's …
How dare Google be forced to remove pages from its search results! If someone has a problem with something on the internet, they should go to the original source to deal with it. Free speech, amurrica, activist judges not understanding the way the internet works, just an index, damn communist liberals, etc etc etc.
Google.cn does not exist any more. It is a simple redirect to Google.co.hk, which does know what happened; although getting an answer about it from mainland China will be difficult.
This article is however about removing a result from all versions of Google, not just in one TLD.
One of the following
1) Google to remove Canada and all its references from its search engine (i.e. US laws rule OK)
2) Nothing apart from a few grumbles in the Press.
3) Tanks will start rolling north from the USA ( US Rules the World OK! and this just the excuse they need to remove that thorn in their side that is Canada)
4) Google CA gets placed into Liquidation by order of a Canadian Court who feel really miffed that their Bully to the south in interfering in Canadian Justice.
5) Something else not mentioned above.
I am joking - really Mr NSA.
"In response to a legal request submitted to Google, we have removed 3 result(s) from this page. If you wish, you may read more about the request at ChillingEffects.org."
Yeah, like that's going to stop anyone. With some expert handling of the google search parameters (I added "Datalink Technologies", shock, horror, who would have thought of that?!) I found their site, along with an interesting message that they no longer handle some Equustek gear. Clearly both sides are pretty pissed with each other. :-)
If I recall, from when I cared about searching for porn, following the chilling effects links took you to a document that had the links unumerated. I'll admin that they were sometimes quite long and hard to type in manually, but I figured that if they were listed in a quasi-legal document, then I was sure to find porn there.
I hope google does the same thing for those ***** who want their own history rewritten.
The "we have removed x result(s)" serves as a handy prompt to try the search term again in the alternative search engine of your choice, which of course in this case reveals the supposedly offending links in all their glory. Something of a waste of time concentrating just on Google, then.
While it's tempting to relish the schadenfreude of Americans being on the receiving effect of grandiose extra-territorial orders for a change, if this habit spreads it could be very damaging for the rest of us. Search engines (and Google in particular) are being singled out because it's an apparently easy fix, rather than try to remove the actual material linked to or take action against the firm in their own jurisdiction. Dragging Google into it makes no more sense than globally ordering newspapers or journals not to carry their adverts, or parcel services not to ship the goods, etc.
They did resolve it and this company lost so it went overseas and uses a series of disposable websites whenever they get shut down.
Google's problem is that they originally said the Canadian court had to no authority to rule on them even in Canada because they were a US company. The court replied that it could order them to do whatever it wanted and hold any Google officer in Canada in contempt if they didn't
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In response to a legal request submitted to Google, we have removed 139 result(s) from this page. If you wish, you may read more about the request at ChillingEffects.org.
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