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French Court Orders Google To Block Pictures of Ex-F1 Chief Mosley
Virtucon writes "This one goes to the old adage 'closing the stable door after the horse bolted.' A French court on Wednesday ruled that Google must remove from its search results photos of a former Formula One racing chief, Max Mosley, participating in an Nazi-themed orgy. Google could be fined up to 1,000 Euros/day for not complying. What's strange here is that Mosley A) Sued in a French Court B) Didn't go after anybody else other than Google and C) has definitely strange tastes in extracurricular activities. In this day and age it's laughable to think that once your private photos/videos hit the Internet that you have any expectation of reining them in or filtering the embarrassing parts out. Google isn't the only game in town so to speak in terms of Internet search. I wonder if his lawyers checked out Yahoo or WebCrawler?"
I mean, they did spend a few episodes beating the poor joke to death.
Google should just serve a static page to french addresses explaining who's demanding cessation of services. Problem solved.
What happens at the nazi themed BDSM orgy stays at the nazi themed BDSM orgy!!!
because the french have very tight privacy laws - they have rather strict photography laws too, you don't even get freedom of panorama in France. I sued there because he could win there.
Hey, he managed to Godwin the Streisand Effect (or is it the other way around?). He's definitely special.
He is the son of Oswald -> http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Oswald_Mosley so that is good CV material to start with
In TFA, it says that Moseley won $96,000 in a lawsuit against the infamous News of the World who published the photos. Not that I agree the decision is correct against Google, but the summary is a little lacking.
Well, there's spam egg sausage and spam, that's not got much spam in it.
Yep, I never would have even thought of looking for it until I read about the lawsuit. Now of course I just had to see it. Not hard to find, by the way: here
http://www.indexoncensorship.org/wp-content/uploads/2011/06/News-of-the-World-Max-Mosley-Cover.jpg
Who cares ?
It's better! He Rule 34'd the Godwin of the Streisand effect! (or something like that).
"When information is power, privacy is freedom" - Jah-Wren Ryel
It also doesn't help his case that he's the son of a noted British fascist leader. Dressing up like a Nazi to get your rocks off when your dad was a Mussolini-loving totalitarian probably isn't a good idea, no matter how much hush money you think you can put up to keep it quiet. Interesting though that the FIA is based in France, I wonder if the courts had any incentive to rule in his favor eh?
every request for Google from a french ip address results in a 'the web page you requested could not be found.' message.
The French will be shitting into their snails before you can say 'Les Cargo'!
Instead of some mild and uninteresting pictures, when you search for "Max Mosley", you now get hits about something involving Max Moseley, five female prostitutes, and a Nazi S&M sex orgy. Way to go!
And you learn that he is the son of Sir Oswald Mosley, founder of the British Union of Fascists, and looking like he stepped out of Monty Python sketch. (I'm assuming "Sir" is not merely an S&M title, but I suppose you can't be sure at this point.) http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Oswald_Mosley
It's better! He Rule 34'd the Godwin of the Streisand effect! (or something like that).
You win the internet.
If he can defeat Google in open court, he can use the case as a precedent to defeat anyone. This is the brave litigant's version of "choose a good target". Cowardly litigants start with the person who has the worst chance of defending themselves, but if they cave, its doesn't set a precedent.
He's not after Google: he's after everyone.
Lawyer stuff is subtle (and some of them are quick to anger (:-))
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Note that the French court is attempting to impose a worldwide ban. How's that for European legal overreach?
Not that it's any of my business, buy why do you want to watch 5 hours of a 72-year old man getting beaten by 5 hookers?
"Our two-party system is like a bowl of shit looking at itself in a mirror." - Lewis Black
At some point, doesn't the world just have to say "Sorry, government of France, this is how the internet works and we can't take parts of it out just because someone in France is offended by it"?
The whole point of the court cases has been it was not a Nazi themed orgy. The newspapers and the prostitutes just made that bit up to sell papers. In fact it has been proven it court that it was merely an Englishman going to a brothel to be beaten by dominatrix prostitutes and his right to do so privately has now been upheld by the French courts.
To paraphrase Zach and Miri,
If you told me there was a 5 hour video of a 72-year old man getting beaten by 5 hookers, I'd say, "Why aren't we watching that right now!"
It's none of my business either, but do you *seriously* want an answer to that question?
File under 'M' for 'Manic ranting'
it happened
http://www.liveleak.com/view?i=4d3_1207044480&comments=1
who prays for Satan? Who in 18 centuries has had the humanity to pray for the 1 sinner that needed it most? ~Mark Twain
They take those down on a case-by-case basis, by request. They aren't presented with a standing fine that will occur for each and every instance that ever happens in the future
File under 'M' for 'Manic ranting'
I believe it's called "pulling a Mosley". Or if it wasn't, it is now.
Log in or piss off.
Somehow I doubt that anyone on Slashdot is offended by the notion of a Nazi-themed orgy. The Internet generation doesn't get shocked very easily anymore. Goatse, Tubgirl, NumberGenderNumberContainer videos, and half the memes ever created are far more offensive than some people having a role-playing orgy behind closed doors.
I believe I just coined the term NumberGenderNumberContainer...
Here my understanding of the story. The News sensationalized the pictures by outright lying about the Nazi theme. Moseley sued and won. He wants all the embarrassing photos removed from the internet including Google. Like I said, I don't particularly agree with the decision but the summary made it seem like it was a personal vendetta against Google.
Well, there's spam egg sausage and spam, that's not got much spam in it.
Interesting, I've been in hotter videos on your mom's Facebook feed.
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The very nature of the net is such that no nation should be allowed to demand anything at all concerning content. France is a fine nation but the notion that they can have any voice in that which is displayed world wide is absurd. Obviously different groups of people have vastly different morals and beliefs. What the net does is give everyone the ability to be offended half out of their minds. What may be considered a savage crime in one place or an act of perversion in another place is perfectly acceptable in other places. Frankly I do not want any nation having any ability to censor the net. It is up to all of us to step up to the plate and be willing to be shocked, mortified, enraged or degraded in order to maintain freedom. Free people should not vote to restrain the freedom of others.
A central reason that Mosley won the original privacy case in the High Court in London is that the judge rejected News Group Newspapers' claim that it was a "Nazi" scenario because they were speaking German (see paragraph 72 of the judgment). The judge found that there was no reason to think the orgy was Nazi-themed, and therefore there was no public interest to justify the privacy violation.
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Why would they drop Germany?
Its like that court in Texas where the Patent Trolls always sue, France has made a few implausible rulings against Google so he went there.
Mielipiteet omiani - Opinions personal, facts suspect.
He was engaging in private consensual acts that harmed no one and are nobody elses business. For that he was crucified in British tabloids to the point where he had to battle in courts and in media for months just in order to keep his job. I believe he won the court case and got quite a tidy sum from News of the World and in revenge he helped bankroll the court expenses of claimants in the phone tapping case against the paper which finally killed it. IMHO fair play to him. Going after google is a bit ridiculous though but not as ridiculous as the French law that apparently allowed him to win the case.
Negative moral value of force outweighs the positive value of good intentions.
For the record, the pictures are available here. They were infamous long before anyone knew it was this Mosley guy (he's nobody to me).
Nobody in the right mind clicks a lemonparty link.
All those moments will be lost in time, like tears in rain. Time to die.