Search Engine Placement Lawsuit May Chill Free Speech
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09-29-2005, 10:44 AM,
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Search Engine Placement Lawsuit May Chill Free Speech
Quote:A lawsuit filed against Web sites that allege search engine results on Google.com were rigged by a placement firm is being watched throughout the Internet industry, as possibly having an impact on the free speech rights of bloggers full story http://www.ecommercetimes.com/story/46326.html |
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09-30-2005, 02:27 AM,
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Re: Search Engine Placement Lawsuit May Chill Free Speech
Not just chill but kill free speech if they win.
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09-30-2005, 04:48 AM,
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Re: Search Engine Placement Lawsuit May Chill Free Speech
Quote:Experts think the lawsuit may be dismissed as a suit designed to silence comment on matters of public concern] Hopefully the experts are right, because a win by T-P in this case would open the doors to every other corporation to completely silence any speech on the Internet that was in the least bit unfavorable to them--no matter how legitimate the complaints being voiced were.
"Well, Jay was so giddy that someone named Jay was involved with this site we posted our first non-eBay listing in 3 years here at Lunarbid (we tried two items at Yahoo once upon a time, they bombed)" -Marie posting in a LunarBid thread at OTWA in 2005 wins the award for 'most moronic reason ever given for choosing a venue"
"thanks twat u must have nothing better 2 do. do u talk to all your members like that. will not be recomending your site. best way to put it is TULIPTOOLS.COM IS REALLY SHIT. DONT JOIN." -pubescent owner of rinky dink off2auction.com in 2011 |
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09-30-2005, 11:19 PM,
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Re: Search Engine Placement Lawsuit May Chill Free Speech
[quote author=bargainbloodhound link=topic=570.msg2254#msg2254 date=1128055738]
Quote:Experts think the lawsuit may be dismissed as a suit designed to silence comment on matters of public concern] Hopefully the experts are right, because a win by T-P in this case would open the doors to every other corporation to completely silence any speech on the Internet that was in the least bit unfavorable to them--no matter how legitimate the complaints being voiced were. [/quote] Site owners will be forced to become censors to avoid liability > |
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10-01-2005, 11:51 PM,
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Re: Search Engine Placement Lawsuit May Chill Free Speech
This is an earlier article on this case from 9/8. Google's banning of Traffic-Power is apparently what caused posters to make the comments that resulted in this lawsuit being filed against the 2 sites where the comments were posted.
http://www.wired.com/news/culture/0,1284...tw=rss.CUL
"Well, Jay was so giddy that someone named Jay was involved with this site we posted our first non-eBay listing in 3 years here at Lunarbid (we tried two items at Yahoo once upon a time, they bombed)" -Marie posting in a LunarBid thread at OTWA in 2005 wins the award for 'most moronic reason ever given for choosing a venue"
"thanks twat u must have nothing better 2 do. do u talk to all your members like that. will not be recomending your site. best way to put it is TULIPTOOLS.COM IS REALLY SHIT. DONT JOIN." -pubescent owner of rinky dink off2auction.com in 2011 |
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02-13-2006, 12:32 PM,
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Google Confirms It Banned Traffic Power
Followup to this story:
Quote:In the case of SEO company Traffic-Power.com, Cutts made an exception, confirming the site had been booted from Google, along with domains promoted by that company. full article: http://www.webpronews.com/topnews/topnew...sting.html
Al draagt een aap een gouden ring, het is en blijft een lelijk ding
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02-13-2006, 09:54 PM,
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Re: Search Engine Placement Lawsuit May Chill Free Speech
Quote:Experts think the lawsuit may be dismissed as a suit designed to silence comment on matters of public concern] The Google banning confirms what the experts thought. |
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