{"id":431170,"date":"2022-01-24T17:00:16","date_gmt":"2022-01-24T15:00:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/?p=431170"},"modified":"2022-01-24T17:00:50","modified_gmt":"2022-01-24T15:00:50","slug":"google-warns-court-ruling-will-force-it-to-censor-the-internet","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/internet\/431170-google-warns-court-ruling-will-force-it-to-censor-the-internet.html","title":{"rendered":"Google warns court ruling will force it to censor the Internet"},"content":{"rendered":"

Google has asked the High Court of Australia to overturn a 2020 ruling that it claims will force it to censor content on the Internet, Engadget has reported<\/strong><\/a>.<\/p>\n

The Victorian Court of Appeals previously rejected Google’s bid to have the ruling of the Victorian Supreme Court overturned in a defamation matter involving state lawyer George Defteros.<\/p>\n

The court had found that Google’s search engine results defamed Defteros by linking to a 2004 article titled “Underworld loses valued friend at court” regarding charges brought against him for conspiracy to commit murder.<\/p>\n

Google said its algorithm was sending search engine users to the article because the publication on which it appeared was regarded as a reliable news source.<\/p>\n

It refused to remove it from its results, despite the charges against Defteros being dropped in 2005.<\/p>\n

But the judge ruled the article had implied Defteros had been “cosy” with Melbourne’s criminal underground and ordered Google to pay $40,000 in damages for the hyperlink.<\/p>\n

In its latest submission to the High Court, Google argues that a hyperlink was not itself the communication to which it linked.<\/p>\n

Google said the 2020 ruling would make the company liable as the publisher of any matter placed on the web to which its search results provided a hyperlink.<\/p>\n

The Internet giant contends that this would force it to act as a censor \u2014 excluding any webpage about which a complaint is made from its search results, even if a reputable source published it.<\/p>\n

The application to the High Court is Google’s last option to appeal the ruling as this is Australia’s highest court.<\/p>\n

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Now read: Chrome won’t let users delete search engines<\/a><\/h3>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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