By Greg Sterling SearchEngineLand: The Canadian Supreme Court has ordered (June 2017) Google to de-index an e-commerce site globally.
This sets a disastrous precedent that opens the door for other
governments (and private parties) across the globe to try to control or
censor Google’s search results.
TruePublica Editor: The article regarding the
Canadian Supreme Court ordering Google to de-list a company from
globally business activity for a crime committed in one country sets a
dangerous precedent, particularly in an environment where the web is
dominated by one transnational corporation who has already been fined
2.7 billion euro’s for fraud and is clearly censoring online information
to suit its own political agenda. The extract from Time
about Cambridge university perfectly describes the process. China, with
huge investments in the UK, such as nuclear energy, is now able to
demand censorship at will.
Cambridge University Press – The
U.K.-based publisher said in a statement Monday that it had
“reluctantly” agreed to remove 315 articles from copies of its
journal The China Quarterly that were to be distributed in the country,
following a “clear order” from the importer, but that it had since
decided to reinstate the blocked content, which reportedly included topics such as the Tiananmen Square protests of 1989, the Cultural Revolution, Tibet and Taiwan.
