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Originally Posted by Damien
Ok let's be fair here. He isn't requesting to censor the Internet apart from the sites he approves off, he is attempting to get personal information that he feels should be private removed from the search engines so that it doesn't harm his character.
That is a far trickier issue than censorship.
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Yes, but look at this from the search engines point of view, how you proactively prevent defamatory search results appearing.
Imagine a user searching for information on Max Mosley, Google returns all pages containing his name. If he succeeds in suing them, would they have to exclude all the pages that also contained the key words 'Nazi', 'orgy' and 'sex'.
The problem with this type of approach is it will inevitability also exclude none defamatory content.
I don't personally care what Max Mosley gets up to private, I do care about web censorship.
Courts should decide what is defamatory not search engines.
They already remove links on request.