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Germany's Former First Lady Sues Google

Posted by samzenpus on Monday September 10, 2012 @12:48AM from the search-and-sue dept.

quax writes "Bettina Wulff faces an uphill battle for her reputation. Her husband had to resign as Germany's president due to corruption allegations and has many detractors. Apparently some of them started a character assassination campaign against his wife. At least that is, if you trust serious journalists who looked into the matter and stated that it is made up. Unfortunately though for Bettina Wulff, the rumors took off on the Internet. Now whenever you enter her name Google suggest the additional search terms 'prostitute' and 'escort.' Google refuses to alter its search index."

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Re:European law takes these things seriously by schaiba · 2012-09-10 00:52 · Score: 5, Funny

Google should rethink their position. They should know that when and/or if they break European libel laws, then they absolutely
...will forget to finish their sentence.
Re:European law takes these things seriously by verbatim · 2012-09-10 00:57 · Score: 5, Funny

If it's libel to say that "when searching for X, people have commonly searched for X+Y" where Y is unkind towards X, then you may want to rethink your notion of libel. If Europeans don't like free speech, then they absolutely

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It's even worse... by srussia · 2012-09-10 01:00 · Score: 5, Funny

Turns out Bettina Wulff is Barbara Streisand's half-sister!

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Re:Germany's 'what'? by Anonymous Coward · 2012-09-10 01:02 · Score: 5, Funny

I think they meant "first lady" as "the escort he chooses by default".