Natural Citizen
05-14-2013, 09:38 PM
Another step toward broad censorship and micromanagement of search engine results...
The Federal Court of Justice upheld a complaint from an unidentified company selling nutritional supplements and its founder, identified only as "R.S." The plaintiffs claimed that when their names were entered on Google's German-language website, it suggested links to Scientology and fraud.
The search suggestions constituted a form of defamation because they wrongly implied "a factual link between the plaintiff and the terms 'Scientology' and/or 'fraud,' which have negative connotations," the court said.
http://www.straitstimes.com/breaking-news/world/story/german-court-orders-changes-google-search-20130514
Aside... Germany proposes crack-down on German food supplements (http://www.anh-europe.org/Germany+proposes+crack+down+on+German+food+supplem ents)
The Federal Court of Justice upheld a complaint from an unidentified company selling nutritional supplements and its founder, identified only as "R.S." The plaintiffs claimed that when their names were entered on Google's German-language website, it suggested links to Scientology and fraud.
The search suggestions constituted a form of defamation because they wrongly implied "a factual link between the plaintiff and the terms 'Scientology' and/or 'fraud,' which have negative connotations," the court said.
http://www.straitstimes.com/breaking-news/world/story/german-court-orders-changes-google-search-20130514
Aside... Germany proposes crack-down on German food supplements (http://www.anh-europe.org/Germany+proposes+crack+down+on+German+food+supplem ents)