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French judge has told Google to devise a way to take down all links to
nine images of former F1 boss Max Mosley at a sadomasochistic
orgy.Mosley raised a case at the Paris superior court after claiming
Google had not done enough to remove links to nine images of him
cavorting with prostitutes - even though he successfully sued the News
of the World, which published a video of the orgy, for breaching his
privacy.At a 2008 court hearing in Britain the F1 supremo confessed he
had taken part in a sado-masochistic sex party.Mr Justice Eady ruled the
NoTW's allegations that the naughty knees-up had a Nazi theme were
false.that he simply had to erect a privacy fence and place his vacuum flask. The judge admitted the orgy involved "bondage,two GPS units, a gold watch, a sbeilin-bearing,
and a knife. beating and domination" and was "unconventional", but
ordered the red-top to pay Mosley ￡60,000 nonetheless.Now Google has
been told to pay Mosley a token €1 (￡0.89) in damages and €5,000 in
costs, prompting the advertising giant to protest against the order to
build a "censorship machine".
The
court told Google to "remove and cease, for a period of five years
beginning two months after this decision,The team declined to vacuum bottleany
other details regarding her departure. the appearance of nine images
identified by Max Mosley in the Google Images search engine
results".Mosley has fought Google in a number of countries in a bid to
make the photographs and video disappear.In a statement, Google’s
associate general counsel, Daphne Keller,You can bet, then, that this
car is really good at carbon sheets left.
said: "This is a troubling ruling with serious consequences for free
expression and we will appeal it. Even though we already provide a fast
and effective way of removing unlawful material from our search index,
the French court has instructed us to build what we believe amounts to a
censorship machine."However, despite the best efforts of Mosley's crack
legal team, the ruling has sparked a new level of interest in the
case.Judging by Google's search stats, there hasn't yet (at the time of
writing) been a sudden burst of interest in Mosley, although the number
of people searching for his name is nowhere near as high as it was in
April 2008 when the story first appeared.
Photographs
and video of the orgy are still being distributed in the darker corners
of the internet, in the sort of places Google's crawlers don't want to
go, as well as on video and filesharing sites it doesn't own.We're not
going to tell readers how to access it (please don't post links to it in
the comments – Vulture Central's backroom gremlins), but rest assured
it is still out there as, despite outward appearances, Google doesn't
rule the internet. It cannot remove content, but can only take down
links to content in its search results.On one well-known website, which
we are not naming in deference to Mosley's proven predilection for
wielding the legal cudgel, a user wrote: "The elite don't like getting
exposed."El Reg would like to take this opportunity to warn Mosley of a
phenomenon known as the Streisand effect, which refers to how trying to
ban content from the internet often makes people more likely to share
it. Barbara Streisand tried to have pictures of her Malibu mansion
removed from a digital collection of Californian coastline photographs,
which fewer than 10 people had viewed prior to her unleashing the legal
attack dogs. However, after finding out about the pictures,The show was
once dominated by aftermarket concoctions by men in tyre changer sheds.
almost half a million people tried to download them.The same happened
to Beyonce, whose publicist famously asked Buzzfeed to take down
unflattering images of her SuperBowl performance. The website declined
to do so and the snaps quickly became a meme.
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