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Deutsche Bahn to Sue Google

Posted by timothy on from the but-not-in-the-u.s. dept.

Many readers including this Anonymous Coward have written about this case: "After the DB-Deutsche Bahn (German railway comp.) won a case against Dutch ISP xs4all to remove 2 articles that were hosted on one of their servers, the DB now is going to sue Google (Wednesday) and probably in 2 days time Yahoo! and Altavista. Infoworld has an article about it. More background information about previous attempts to censor the same site can be found here and here's list of mirrors." And Yes, "Access is Forbidden."

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  1. And the interesting part is... by Munelight · · Score: 5, Interesting

    "Deutsche Bahn will file suit in Germany, where all three search engine companies have subsidiaries, because it feels it would not stand a chance in a U.S. court because of freedom of speech allowed by the First Amendment to the U.S. Constitution."

    Have these people not been paying attention lately?

  2. Re:subsidiaries by Cally · · Score: 5, Interesting
    A company such as Google should not operate in a country where free speech is not lawful.


    What do you mean by "a company such as Google"? If you mean "a company which is popular with geeks and Slashdotters" - well, you're right, in that some of the shine may gradually rub off their geek-friendly, free-speech protecting image. OTOH, plenty of large well-known corporations do business with China, say, or in Saudi Arabia, Pakistan,.. ( insert your favourite repressive non-democratic regime...) IBM organised the Holocaust, you know, and Cisco built and support the Great Firewall of China (and who knows who supplies the software tools that pull out Falun Gong-related email from the wire and queue a request for the secret police to pay the poster a visit at 4am?) (actually, it's probably Free software: but that's morally defensible, in that the Free software community are not getting rich supporting repression.)

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    "None are more hopelessly enslaved than those who falsely believe they are free." -- Goethe
  3. Host Name Change by Captain+Large+Face · · Score: 5, Interesting

    In other news, www.xs4all.nl will change to www.xs4allexceptcertainanarchistpublications.nl to represent recent events.

    Would it not be a better idea for Deutsche Bahn to use their excess cash to:

    • Secure Their Systems
    • Find Better Ways to Transport Radioactive Waste

    As the already-present mirrors show, attempting to censor people's right to freedom of speech on the Internet is a futile exercise.