<story><title>Canada&apos;s top court backs order for Google to remove firm&apos;s website from searches</title><url>http://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/british-columbia/google-ruling-1.4181322</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>escapetech</author><text>This wouldn&amp;#x27;t be the first time a government is requiring Google to modify their search results. This case parallels the &amp;quot;right to be forgotten&amp;quot; cases brought against them by the EU several years ago. There is a reason that civil liberties and human rights organizations like the ACLU are concerned about this precedent.&lt;p&gt;In the US, with the murders of unarmed civilians by law enforcement and subsequent acquittals occurring at an alarming rate with increasing public outrage, it might be only a matter of time before a court somewhere rules in the favor of a person found innocent who is suing to keep as many details of a particular murder off the Internet on the grounds that his or her constitutional rights being violated (i.e inability to find employment, friendship, etc), and companies such as Google being forced to comply with the court&amp;#x27;s rulings.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>kbenson</author><text>&amp;gt; it might be only a matter of time before a court somewhere rules in the favor of a person found innocent who is suing to keep as many details of a particular murder off the Internet&lt;p&gt;Which in the context of &amp;quot;murders of unarmed civilians by law enforcement and subsequent acquittals&amp;quot; sounds bad, because it&amp;#x27;s possibly against your concept of justice, but what about the other end of the spectrum, where baseless claims are leveled on a person and this is high in many search results, or people are defamed through libel and the jurisdiction doesn&amp;#x27;t allow allow for a legal remedy?&lt;p&gt;I mean, if I seed the internet with 20 SEO optimized sites about how you&amp;#x27;re a murdering rapist, should Google&amp;#x27;s right to keep that in results be defended?  Freedom of speech is complicated, and &lt;i&gt;not absolute&lt;/i&gt; in the United States.  We have laws for libel and slander to prevent just this sort of thing, and I don&amp;#x27;t usually see those being called a bad idea.  Perhaps that should be an indication that this issue isn&amp;#x27;t as black and white as it&amp;#x27;s often portrayed, and deserves a more moderate, considered solution.</text></comment>
<story><title>Canada&apos;s top court backs order for Google to remove firm&apos;s website from searches</title><url>http://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/british-columbia/google-ruling-1.4181322</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>escapetech</author><text>This wouldn&amp;#x27;t be the first time a government is requiring Google to modify their search results. This case parallels the &amp;quot;right to be forgotten&amp;quot; cases brought against them by the EU several years ago. There is a reason that civil liberties and human rights organizations like the ACLU are concerned about this precedent.&lt;p&gt;In the US, with the murders of unarmed civilians by law enforcement and subsequent acquittals occurring at an alarming rate with increasing public outrage, it might be only a matter of time before a court somewhere rules in the favor of a person found innocent who is suing to keep as many details of a particular murder off the Internet on the grounds that his or her constitutional rights being violated (i.e inability to find employment, friendship, etc), and companies such as Google being forced to comply with the court&amp;#x27;s rulings.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>ams6110</author><text>People in the US are not &amp;quot;found innocent,&amp;quot; they are presumed innocent and found &amp;quot;not guilty.&amp;quot;&lt;p&gt;If someone is found &amp;quot;not guilty&amp;quot; of murder then legally that person has not committed murder, and understandably and justifiably would not want Google (or anyone else) to portray otherwise.</text></comment>