Google removal - Chester's Guide to Molesting Google

[Dave Farber <farber () trial danger net>]

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From: Seth Finkelstein <sethf () sethf com>
To: Dave Farber <dave () farber net>
Subject: Google removal - Chester's Guide to Molesting Google
Date: Thu, 27 Feb 2003 09:28:30 -0500

[You might find this relevant to IP - it's a fascinating story where
Google removed material from their index due to a newspaper's
negative-publicity campaign, not a government mandate]

  From: Seth Finkelstein
  To: Seth Finkelstein's InfoThought list
  Subject: IT: Google removal - Chester's Guide to Molesting Google
  Date: Tue, 25 Feb 2003 11:27:35 -0500

        New report:

  Chester's Guide to Molesting Google
  http://sethf.com/anticensorware/general/chester.php

  Abstract: This report examines a newspaper-led campaign to have a 
site
  removed from both its host and the Google search index. The uproar
  turned out to originate from a single page of text of "sick humor".

        I've investigated the background behind a campaign of a UK
newspaper, the "Chester Chronicle", to have material removed from the
web (not successfully - so far) and from Google's index 
(succesfully!).
The campaign appears to be a "moral panic" arising from confusing
a paedophile site for a single archived text column of "sick humor",
written under a pen-name of "Chester the Molester".

URL of Chester Chronicle article describing success against Google 
index:

"Sick website taken down"
http://iccheshireonline.icnetwork.co.uk/0100news/0100regionalnews/page.cfm?objectid=12663897&method=full&siteid=50020

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