When I first saw this story, I thought "You gotta be kidding me?!" but I checked it out and, well, it's true. When you search for "Diego Maradona" on Yahoo! Argentina you get zero results. Why? According to the OpenNet Initiative:
Over 100 people have successfully secured temporary restraining orders that direct Google and Yahoo! Argentina to scrub the results of search queries. The list of censorship-seeking celebrities includes judges, public officials, models and actors, as well as the world-cup soccer star and national team head coach Diego Maradona.En serio?
All of the clients are represented a single lawyer, Martin Leguizamon Peña, who has claimed to have achieved a 80% success rate in obtaining restraining orders against Google and Yahoo!. Peña is also seeking compensation of 300,000 to 400,000 pesos ($90,000 to $120,000) from the search engines for each of his clients.
7 comments:
I don't get restrictions from google Argentina or yahoo in english, but yahoo Argentina restrics the results. We'll have to wait for the appeal.
It's shocking and sad that Google and Yahoo! are being strong-armed into this type of censorship; however, I performed a search on Yahoo! Mexico and turned up scads of results on Maradona. Are these celebs and politicians dim enough to think that people won't find an alternative method to get the information they're searching for?
However, if you go to the English versions or non-local versions of those sites, all the results pop up.
Wow. Just stumbled across your blog while searching for how many entries "Argentines", "Argentinians" and "Argentineans" got in google. It's that kind of afternoon.
Great blog- thanks!
great blog, I love Argentina also and just moved here.
What are they trying to hide by this effort? Bad news? Interesting.
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