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Argentine Judges Disappear Celebrities From Internet

Posted by timothy on from the unsearchterms dept.

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)."

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  1. Before /. starts to panic about free speech... by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 1, Interesting

    Consider that Argentina has a very severe problem with high-profile Argentinians and their families being kidnapped and held for ransom.

  2. This is interesting... by Viceroy+Potatohead · · Score: 2, Interesting

    I decided to see if I could check the same filtering mechanism with Canada and the US. The only obvious thing that struck me to search for is 'lolicon', since I'm pretty sure it's illegal in Canada but not the states.

    The US results (1,350,000 results)
    The Canadian results (1,230,000)

    Or am I missing some incredibly obvious other reason that these results are different?