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[ PRIVACY Forum ] Google to fight Spanish demands to remove
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Google to fight Spanish demands to remove 'libelous' links
http://bit.ly/hl9t1d (Google Buzz)
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http://bit.ly/i21Vel (Guardian UK)
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As I have long predicted, governments, frustrated by their inability
to control the proliferation of data on serving sites themselves, will
increasingly attempt to censor the sites that link to such
materials -- especially search engine listings -- in the hopes that if people
can't easily *find* the data, it's nearly as good (from the censors'
point of view) as the data not existing at all. Plus, attacking
search engines has the convenience advantage of helping to "bury"
large numbers of links through what amounts to "one-stop censorship
shopping."
Call it the War on Links.
This may be an increasing risk for all of us who link anywhere, but
most notably for that entity most people turn to first as the
reliable, unofficial Indexer of the Internet, that is, Google.
Especially in the absence of other mechanisms to deal with search
results disputes (e.g. Extending Google Blacklists for Dispute
Resolutions: http://bit.ly/c4RvWs [Lauren's Blog]), censorship
demands targeting search engines can only be expected to increase
dramatically over time.
"If a tree falls in the forest and there's no index you can use
to find it, does it really exist?"
--Lauren--
Lauren Weinstein (lauren@vortex.com)
http://www.vortex.com/lauren
Tel: +1 (818) 225-2800
Co-Founder, PFIR (People For Internet Responsibility): http://www.pfir.org
Founder, NNSquad (Network Neutrality Squad): http://www.nnsquad.org
Founder, GCTIP (Global Coalition for Transparent Internet Performance):
http://www.gctip.org
Founder, PRIVACY Forum: http://www.vortex.com
Member, ACM Committee on Computers and Public Policy
Lauren's Blog: http://lauren.vortex.com
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Google Buzz: http://bit.ly/lauren-buzz
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