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German court tells Google to clean up Auto-Complete

article published on 15 May, 2013

A German federal court has ordered Google to clean up its Auto Complete service on the Google.DE search engine. In a decision that baffled Google, the German court has told it that it must ensure terms generated by auto-complete are not offensive or defamatory. The decision overturned prior ruling from two lower German courts. The case started with a complaint from an unnamed businessman ... [ read the full article ]

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Qliphah
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_ 		16. May 2013 @ 11:11 _ Link to this message    Send private message to this user   
Was he mad because they called him a Scientologist or a fraud... because the 2 aren't mutually exclusive.
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PraisesToAllah
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_ 		16. May 2013 @ 12:19 _ Link to this message    Send private message to this user   
People who get offended by what others searched on google are insecure.

This is a lame law suit and it has no real merit and the Judge is probably insecure too.
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Jemborg
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_ 		16. May 2013 @ 12:47 _ Link to this message    Send private message to this user   
I'm surprised that "Scientology" and "complete & utter nonsense" did not come up at the same time.
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_ 		16. May 2013 @ 14:23 _ Link to this message    Send private message to this user   
The winner of this weeks "dumbass" tee-shirt goes to the GFC with the following phrase.

"There is no room for sound logic on the internets"

tee-shirts will be mailed shortly
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_ 		16. May 2013 @ 15:01 _ Link to this message    Send private message to this user   
This is when no tech savvy governments reps. and technology collide.
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_ 		16. May 2013 @ 15:07 _ Link to this message    Send private message to this user   
Come on... obviously the Cult of Scientology is behind this. It has all the hallmarks. Persistent time wasting use of the courts to intimidate for instance.
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_ 		17. May 2013 @ 10:23 _ Link to this message    Send private message to this user   
Shame on them judges if this absurdity is remotely close to being considered.

Next thing will be to ban certain trending topics con twitter. It's pretty much the same thing, if not much worse, according to their criteria.
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_ 		17. May 2013 @ 11:57 _ Link to this message    Send private message to this user   
I just think it's funny they think they can force Google to do anything. Google is not based in Germany, it is not responsible for what people search for, and there's little to no money to be made from autocomplete results. So why is Germany doing this?

If I were google I'd put a nazi sign on every page routed to germany, thus anyone using google in germany is breaking their own laws as looking at or even thinking nazi propaganda is illegal. Maybe then they would get the idea of free speech, Hitler would have loved how Germany's legal system turned out.
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