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Argentine Judges Disappear Celebrities From Internet
An anonymous reader writes "Since 2006, Internet users in Argentina have been blocked from searching for information about some of the country's most notable individuals. 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. Try it yourself — compare the results for a Yahoo! Argentina search for Diego Maradona (0 results) to a search at Yahoo! Mexico and Google Argentina (both with millions of results)."
Perhaps they've solved our problem of over-populated web-hits on our idiotic, media-seeking celebrities up here.
If I recall correctly, Jon Swift purported that Irish babies would go a long way to feeding the impoverished English public.
If anyone from Google or Yahoo! in general is reading, could we add Lindsay Lohan, Brittney Spears and the other paparazzi-fodder to that list for the search sites world-wide? I'm not suggesting that eating their babies would be a good idea, but I'm positive eating up their web-hits and searches would go a long way to feeding the positive intelligence of not only the English public, but the world.
Think of it as doing your part to solve the (intellectual) hunger problems of the world. Onemillionactsofgreen.com would then meet their quota in... oh, about 30 minutes or so?!
When the going gets weird, the weird turn pro. ~~ Hunter S. Thompson
I think it's supposed to be the use of the transitive verb "disappear." Because quite literally the judges disappeared the celebrities from those search results -- no mobster euphemism for killing there.
The usage here is quite inappropriate as those who were "disappeared" in the 1970s were themselves victims of government repression while these celebrities are the beneficiaries thereof.
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The usage in this headline is an example of irony. It doesn't have to be an exact match for the original situation.
It's a dark joke on the thousands of people who "disappeared" during the late great dictatorship.
Infuriate left and right
In Catch-22, the Army disappeared Dunbar in the 1961 first edition, so I think it predates the Argentine nastiness.
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