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Ms Macedo is one of 114 people, including football star Diego Maradona, who have sought restraining orders against Google and Yahoo in Argentina over content they say is defamatory and has achieved prominence thanks to the power of the leading search engines.The cases centre on the thorny question of who is responsible for web content and whether censorship is valid or just a case of shooting the messenger.
A search for Maradona on www.yahoo.com.ar brings up a notice saying that, because of a legal order, “we have been obliged temporarily to suspend some or all of the results related to this search”. Full results are, however, displayed on www.yahoo.com.
“The key to the question is that if these search engines didn’t exist, no one would know these sites,” says Martín Leguizamón Peña, a showbusiness lawyer representing the plaintiffs, some of whom are also suing for damages.
Surely, it's arguable that the search results returning inaccurate content are just as bad as the content.
why dont they go after the sites creating and publishing this content.
why? becuase they dont have nearly as much money as G or Ya....
dont be scandalous and scandalous stuff wont be published..
if its not true then dont worry about it....
