Canadian court forces Google to remove search results worldwide, as fears of “memory hole” grow

  • 26 July 2014
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By Jeff John Roberts, July 25, 2014
 
A Canadian court is forcing Google to remove search listings not just for google.ca, but beyond the country’s borders too. The case could lead to more regional censorship practices becoming global.
 
A Canadian court took the unprecedented step this week of maintaining global jurisdiction over Google and forcing it to delete search results not just for “google.ca” but for “google.com” as well. The move comes as lawmakers in Europe pressure Google to censor more pages under a controversial “right-to-be-forgotten” law, and could accelerate a recent trend of disappearing online information.
 
In the Canadian case, Google had urged a judge in Vancouver to suspend an earlier ruling that required it to remove any search links related to an e-commerce vendor accused of selling knock-off internet equipment. That ruling, which came out in June and gave Google 14 days to remove the results, is now in force after the judge concluded that applying the worldwide ruling would not create “irreparable harm.”
 
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This is going to be a battle for sure. Google and the courts....who will win on this issue???
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@Antus67 wrote:
This is going to be a battle for sure. Google and the courts....who will win on this issue???
The courts... no different than the "right to be forgotten" in the EU [ http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Right_to_be_forgotten ]

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