11 October, 2016

Dozens of suspicious court cases, with missing defendants, aim at getting web pages taken down or deindexed

Dozens of suspicious court cases, with missing defendants, aim at getting web pages taken down or deindexed:



Now, you might ask, what’s the point of suing a fake defendant (to the extent that some of these defendants are indeed fake)? How can anyone get any real money from a fake defendant? How can anyone order a fake defendant to obey a real injunction?
The answer is that Google and various other Internet platforms have a policy: They won’t take down material (or, in Google’s case, remove it from Google indexes) just because someone says it’s defamatory. Understandable — why would these companies want to adjudicate such factual disputes? Butif they see a court order that declares that some material is defamatory, they tend to take down or deindex the material, relying on the court’s decision.


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