Argentine Judges Disappear Celebrities From Internet

Posted by timothy on Wednesday November 12, 2008 @08:18AM 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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Yes really by ifwm · 2008-11-12 09:09 · Score: -1, Offtopic

"Disappear" has been used as a verb in the vernacular for years.
But don't let your ignorance of an extremely common use of the word stop you from making a pedantic observation that isn't even correct.