Police censorship

[chard]

I am posting a link to Inquisition 21 precisely because Google have de-listed it at the requst of the police. You should find out why for yourself, if you care about your freedom.

Comments

[gerald_duck]

I've seen people mention this before; is there any indication why the police have asked for Google not to list it? Particularly, why de-list it when it remains up and this kind of viral marketing is bound to happen? The most sinister explanation is that they don't want wrongly convicted people to discover it, but maybe they're actually worried about the prospect of it prejudicing the jury in any retrial.

Given the police's past record in relation to electronic crime I find it all too plausible that they may have messed up on a grand scale; as well as ruining lives with wrongful convictions some actual paedophiles may now get acquitted.

[gareth_rees]

How do we know it was the police who asked Google to de-list it?

[chard]

This is a very good question. A lot of my worry about this hinges on the nature of the communication between the police and Google, and on Google's policy on this matter. I'm not sure where to start looking for information about that, though.

[gareth_rees]

What evidence do we have that the police contacted Google at all? (I might just not be reading the right articles, but I couldn't see any such claim in e.g. the Register article.)

[writinghawk]

Or indeed the other Register article several months later: it "has been delisted by Google, but the search giant has never explained why".