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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?"

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  1. Re:Why is he special? by immaterial · · Score: 5, Funny

    Hey, he managed to Godwin the Streisand Effect (or is it the other way around?). He's definitely special.

  2. Re:Why is he special? by michelcolman · · Score: 5, Informative

    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

  3. Re:Why is he special? by GameboyRMH · · Score: 5, Funny

    It's better! He Rule 34'd the Godwin of the Streisand effect! (or something like that).

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  4. Re:Fine. by Tx · · Score: 5, Funny

    Nah. Google should just redirect French users to Bing if they search for Max Mosley pics.

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  5. brilliant! by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 5, Insightful

    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

  6. Re:How many times do I have to tell you guys by fahrbot-bot · · Score: 5, Funny

    What happens at the nazi themed BDSM orgy stays at the nazi themed BDSM orgy!!!

    One would think, but sooner of later it's going to spread to Poland, France...

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  7. Re:Nazi themed orgy? by Anarchduke · · Score: 5, Informative
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  8. This is amusing by nctritech · · Score: 5, Insightful

    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...