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[ NNSquad ] Federal Judge Orders Google, Facebook to Disappear Hundreds of Sites
Federal Judge Orders Google, Facebook to Disappear Hundreds of Sites
http://j.mp/vmYLTc (Wired)
"After a series of one-sided hearings, luxury goods maker Chanel has
won recent court orders against hundreds of websites trafficking in
counterfeit luxury goods. A federal judge in Nevada has agreed that
Chanel can seize the domain names in question and transfer them all to
US-based registrar GoDaddy. The judge also ordered "all Internet
search engines" and "all social media websites"-explicitly naming
Facebook, Twitter, Google+, Bing, Yahoo, and Google-to "de-index" the
domain names and to remove them from any search results."
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The actual court order (PDF) is here:
http://j.mp/v1bpai (Serving Notice)
Toward the end, it conveniently lists all of the affected domains,
many of which (when I semi-randomly surveyed a few minutes ago) were
still operational under those names. And of course, even after the
domain names are pulled and their search results subjected to
government-ordered Newspeak obliteration, many will presumably
continue to operate based on their IP addresses, which busy sites all
over the world are presumably archiving right now for future use.
--Lauren--
Lauren Weinstein (lauren@vortex.com): http://www.vortex.com/lauren
Co-Founder: People For Internet Responsibility: http://www.pfir.org
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