French court orders Google to block pictures

GURPS

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French court orders Google to block Mosley 'orgy photos'

Google, the world's leading search engine, has been ordered by a French court to remove links to images of ex-F1 boss Max Mosley with prostitutes.

Google said the ruling "should worry all those who defend freedom of expression on the internet". It intends to appeal, French media say.

Mr Mosley successfully sued the UK's now-defunct News of the World after it ran a story in 2008 claiming he had organised an orgy with Nazi overtones.

He won damages for breach of privacy.

The News of the World secretly filmed the former Formula One chief with five prostitutes and published a front-page story.

He won £60,000 ($90,000) damages after a judge ruled that there was no substance to the allegation that there had been a Nazi theme and found that his privacy had been breached.
 
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GURPS said:
French court orders Google to block Mosley 'orgy photos'

Google, the world's leading search engine, has been ordered by a French court to remove links to images of ex-F1 boss Max Mosley with prostitutes.

Google said the ruling "should worry all those who defend freedom of expression on the internet". It intends to appeal, French media say.

Mr Mosley successfully sued the UK's now-defunct News of the World after it ran a story in 2008 claiming he had organised an orgy with Nazi overtones.

He won damages for breach of privacy.

The News of the World secretly filmed the former Formula One chief with five prostitutes and published a front-page story.

He won 60,000 ($90,000) damages after a judge ruled that there was no substance to the allegation that there had been a Nazi theme and found that his privacy had been breached.
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Awesome. A news story that invokes Godwin's Law *and* the Streisand Effect all in one!

Video here:

http://www.liveleak.com/view?i=4d3_1207044480
 
GURPS

GURPS

INGSOC
PREMO Member
Links 7 Nov, Max Mosley, Google, The French Court And The Streisand Effect'

There does come a point when you would rather assume that Max Mosley would wake up to the Streisand Effect in his campaign to scrub the internet of the images of his little sexual escapade. But he seems not to note it: he’s now managed to get a French court order that Google must ensure that the search engine contains no links to the images.

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Do you see the problem there? Google’s quite happy to take down links to the images when they are reported to them. But how can they make sure that the spiders never link to anything at all that contains those images?

Speaking in 2011, Mr Mosley told a UK inquiry into a phone-hacking scandal at News Corp that he was pursuing legal action against Google in Germany and France over the search results.

Mr Mosley said Google had agreed to remove links to material from the story on a case-by-case basis.

But he claimed that when he had asked the firm to re-programme its technology to ensure it did not show up at all in searches about him it had refused as “a matter of principle” even though it was “technically feasible”.​

Well, yes, it is actually a matter of principle. For in Common Law jurisdictions at least there is no pre-publication ban on such things as libel: only post-publication punishment and damages for having done it. And we might go further:

On Wednesday, the Tribunal de Grande Instance in Paris backed Mr. Mosley’s attempts to force Google to block references to the images from appearing in Google’s search results worldwide. The company said it would appeal the decision.​
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do you think maybe they guys do not understand how the internet works ?
 
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