{"id":10532,"date":"2017-07-25T17:24:25","date_gmt":"2017-07-25T22:24:25","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/?p=10532"},"modified":"2017-07-25T17:24:25","modified_gmt":"2017-07-25T22:24:25","slug":"when-russia-demands-facebook-be-taken-down-who-wins","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/2017\/07\/25\/when-russia-demands-facebook-be-taken-down-who-wins\/","title":{"rendered":"When Russia Demands Facebook Be Taken Down, Who Wins?"},"content":{"rendered":"
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This should prove interesting. Google recently lost a court case in Canada, and the Canadian court’s ruling was that particular websites which happen to be infringing on intellectual property rights must be stricken from Google’s indices –\u00a0world-wide<\/b>. Eriq Gardner\u00a0opines\u00a0<\/a>in the\u00a0Hollywood Reporter<\/b><\/i>:<\/p>\n

It’d be one thing if this were China, and the Communists were ordering the censoring of politically unfavorable information. In such a case, Google could walk away from the market.\u00a0That’s exactly what happened in 2010<\/a>.<\/p>\n

But this was\u00a0Canada<\/em>, for gosh sake. What would be next? Hollywood forum-shopping its piracy cleanup north of the border? Or how about Europe looking to impose a “right to be forgotten” worldwide?\u00a0Survey says<\/a>.<\/p>\n

So what’s Google doing now?<\/p>\n

The company has filed a lawsuit in California federal court against\u00a0Equustek.<\/p>\n

“Google brings this action to prevent enforcement in the United States of a Canadian order that prohibits Google from publishing within the United States search result information about the contents of the internet,” states the introduction in the complaint (read here<\/a>, courtesy of\u00a0Wired<\/em>).<\/p>\n

A federal judge can now give Google what it requests by issuing a declaration that the injunction is unenforceable as inconsistent with the First Amendment, the Communications Decency Act and international comity, but does it matter? What a U.S. judge can’t do is stop a Canadian court from imposing sanctions on Google for failure to comply with the injunction.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

I’ll bet\u00a0Equustek\u00a0<\/b><\/i>wasn’t exactly pleased to see\u00a0nouveau-behemoth\u00a0Google\u00a0<\/b><\/i>calling it into the court. But, of course, this is an embodiment of the inevitable clash of a naturally global entity with the artificial lines of nation-states. As noted before, what happens when an authoritarian state court issues a demand to\u00a0Google\u00a0<\/b><\/i>that it take something out world-wide? Does the Internet then become the playground of the liberal (we hope it’s still liberal) West?<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

This should prove interesting. Google recently lost a court case in Canada, and the Canadian court’s ruling was that particular websites which happen to be infringing on intellectual property rights must be stricken from Google’s indices –\u00a0world-wide. Eriq Gardner\u00a0opines\u00a0in the\u00a0Hollywood Reporter: It’d be one thing if this were China, and \u2026 Continue reading → <\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"nf_dc_page":"","_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-10532","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10532","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=10532"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10532\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":10533,"href":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10532\/revisions\/10533"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=10532"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=10532"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=10532"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}