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Google – you DO control your search results, thunders Canadian court

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> Of course removing listings from Google's search doesn't actually make the website inaccessible.

Of course not. But look at what's actually happening here. No-one knows the URLs of these sites, which are being created anew constantly in at attempt to circumvent and existing judgement. The only purpose of the sites is to get search result hits. Without the search hits, the sites may still be accessible, but no-one's actually going to try to access them.

> there are serious implications in suggesting that a legal system can make legal pronouncements on the activities being performed in another country.

Yeah, but they're not really. They're pronouncing on activities being performed with a different set of letters after the final dot in the URL. And, since Google can reliably detect your country of origin, there's no issue here.

Even if they were, this is hardly a new cyber thing. The Nuremburg trials applied some countries' legal ideas to other countries. It happens.

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