Woman wins 12-year legal battle against Google
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Re: Woman wins 12-year legal battle against Google
#2Read another way,
> Woman loses 12 years of her life to a legal battle against Google
Re: Woman wins 12-year legal battle against Google
#3https://globalfreedomofexpression.columbia.edu/cases/duffy-v... has some actual details of what this is about.
Re: Woman wins 12-year legal battle against Google
#4There’s a difference between “settles” and “wins”. Sounds like they settled, but then they talk like she won…
Re: Woman wins 12-year legal battle against Google
#5Seems to be about Google making something from "Ripoff Report" available, on which were defamatory statements about the plaintiff.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ripoff_Report
An interesting business model, to be sure... And a clash of two legal regimes, one in which Ripoff Report can operate and another in which Google can be sued for indexing / linking to them.
It's like, pick your poison...
Re: Woman wins 12-year legal battle against Google
#6Read another way, > Woman loses 12 years of her life to a legal battle against Google
nah she won and did a great service to her fellow human beings.
this was not lost or wasted time. people spend decades on far more "useless" things - not that there is anything wrong with that
Re: Woman wins 12-year legal battle against Google
#7Seems to be about Google making something from "Ripoff Report" available, on which were defamatory statements about the plaintiff. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ripoff_Report An interesting business model, to be sure... And a clash of two legal regimes, one in which Ripoff Report can operate and another in which Google can be sued for indexing / linking to them. It's like, pick your poison...
i find it mindboggling that criminal records are so accessible in the US - so that something like ripoff report is a legal business there does not surprise me in the least
Re: Woman wins 12-year legal battle against Google
#8A person wrote articles that another person felt were defamatory, second person sued Google for indexing them.
Re: Woman wins 12-year legal battle against Google
#9Read another way, > Woman loses 12 years of her life to a legal battle against Google
nah she won and did a great service to her fellow human beings. this was not lost or wasted time. people spend decades on far more "useless" things - not that there is anything wrong with that
Indeed, society needs such people. Heroic, in a way.
Re: Woman wins 12-year legal battle against Google
#10Not a single scrap of information about the facts of the case. We should just infer that Google are evil and did something wrong that they deserve to pay for.