Thursday, January 8, 2009 at 9:45 AM
The Internet in Argentina is going through some hard times. Despite the fact that search engines have no control over third party content, Argentinean courts have issued preliminary injunctions seeking to place liability on search engines for content found on third party websites. Public officials have requested that search engines remove all search results that may be associated with their names, thereby eliminating any links to news media, opinion pages, online publications, government websites containing information about the officials, and even the court websites where the officials work.
These proceedings threaten both freedom of expression and access to information, and pose a grave threat to the future development of the Internet in Argentina. In the interest of preserving the Internet as a free and open platform and guaranteeing freedom of expression, Google will fight this decision.
For more background and to learn more, check out my post on the Official Google Blog for Latin America (in Spanish).
3 comments:
Internet censorship is not new, but placing the liability on ISP is. And it sounds quite harsh.
That will really curtain freedom of information and accountability for the government. That's like turning it into a communist type state. But didn't Google also cave in to China's demands re filtering of government information and blocking access to certain political sites?
They are also looking at proposing new mandatory censorship filters onto ISP in Australia. I blogged about it here:
http://inspiredworlds.wordpress.com/2009/01/05/net-censorship/
If that's how they want to play then remove Google from their entire country. Two can play at this game.
They need you more than you need them.
Hit em in the wallet and you'll get their attention
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