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Is it up to Google's lawyers to do extensive investigations to find out that this guy had "a track record of misleading people"? What if Google decides they do
by guelo 9y ago
Is it up to Google's lawyers to do extensive investigations to find out that this guy had "a track record of misleading people"?
What if Google decides they don't want to pay for that? Then all that nuance will be gone.
- jacquesm 9y agoNo, Google has the right to fight each such request in court.
- michaelmrose 9y agoThis is basically an impossible burden to bear. If everyone who had anything whatsoever bad about them on the internet decided that the tiny burden of sending a letter was a worthy use of time then fighting the 1/10 which were the most dubious would ruin google financially. This is like a network where you can cause a network to waste a GB of data by sending a KB of data. The only reasonable response in that situation would be to invest only the money available to fight the worst of the worst requests and blanket accept almost everyone's request to silence anyone else. If you turn it around and make a single request take a few thousand dollars worth of legal fees and many hours of work then worthless requests which are likely to be denied wont be bothered with but the most worthy may still be seen to.
- jacquesm 9y agoExcellent, the law works as intended.
- michaelmrose 9y agoYou want anyone to be able to silence anyone via a letter?
- geocar 9y agoIf google wants to ignore an erasure request for journalistic and public good/interest reasons, yes. Responsible Journalism can’t ignore stuff like this, so I’m not surprised that the Judge would expect google, after making the journalism case, to demonstrate some of that attention to detail.