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)."

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flat wrong

[inzy]

yeah, the yahoo argentina search provides nothing, but the google one turns up thousand of results. get your evidence straight slashdot

your use of the word 'disappear', apart from beign shocking grammar, is slightly disturbing and over the top, considering what it actually means in an argentinian context, i.e. the mass abduction and execution of anti-government protesters. i hardly think maradona's name not appearing in yahoo searches is even vaguely comparable. who are you, the national enquirer? this is sensationalist, hatchet journalism

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