28.10.2015 - 18:49 [ Techdirt ]

Right To Be Forgotten Now Lives In Australia: Court Says Google Is The ‚Publisher‘ Of Material It Links To

Earlier this year, we wrote about a ridiculous lawsuit in Australia where Janice Duffy was suing Google because the search engine returned links to some Ripoff Report pages that Duffy claimed were defamatory. As we noted at the time, this is just a ridiculously misguided lawsuit on multiple levels. It‘s not targeting whoever wrote the supposedly defamatory material. It‘s not even targeting who hosted the supposedly defamatory material (which would be problematic enough). It‘s targeting… Google.