{"id":24286,"date":"2017-06-28T19:11:05","date_gmt":"2017-06-29T00:11:05","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/olduvai.ca\/?p=24286"},"modified":"2017-06-28T19:11:05","modified_gmt":"2017-06-29T00:11:05","slug":"top-canadian-court-permits-worldwide-internet-censorship","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/?p=24286","title":{"rendered":"Top Canadian Court Permits Worldwide Internet Censorship"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Top Canadian Court Permits Worldwide Internet Censorship<\/a><\/h3>\n<\/div>\n
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A country has the right to prevent the world\u2019s Internet users from accessing information, Canada\u2019s highest court ruled on Wednesday.<\/p>\n

In a decision that has troubling implications for free expression online, the Supreme Court of Canada upheld<\/a> a company\u2019s effort to force Google to de-list entire domains and websites from its search index, effectively making them invisible to everyone using Google\u2019s search engine<\/p>\n

The case, Google v. Equustek<\/i><\/a>, began when British Columbia-based Equustek Solutions accused Morgan Jack and others, known as the Datalink defendants, of selling counterfeit Equustek routers online. It claimed California-based Google facilitated access to the defendants\u2019 sites. The defendants never appeared in court to challenge the claim, allowing default judgment against them, which meant Equustek effectively won without the court ever considering whether the claim was valid.<\/p>\n

Although Google was not named in the lawsuit, it voluntarily took down specific URLs that directed users to the defendants\u2019 products and ads under the local (Canadian) Google.ca domains. But Equustek wanted more, and the British Columbia Supreme Court ruled that Google had to delete the entire domain from its search results, including from all other domains such Google.com and Google.go.uk. The British Columbia Court of Appeal\u00a0upheld\u00a0the decision, and the Supreme Court of Canada decision followed the analysis of those courts.<\/p>\n

EFF intervened in the case, explaining<\/a> [.pdf] that such an injunction ran directly contrary to both the U.S. Constitution and statutory speech protections. Issuing an order that would cut off access to information for U.S. users would set a dangerous precedent for online speech.\u00a0 In essence, it would expand the power of any court in the world to edit the entire Internet, whether or not the targeted material or site is lawful in another country.<\/p>\n

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Top Canadian Court Permits Worldwide Internet Censorship A country has the right to prevent the world\u2019s Internet users from accessing information, Canada\u2019s highest court ruled on Wednesday. In a decision that has troubling implications for free expression online, the Supreme Court of Canada upheld a company\u2019s effort to force Google to de-list entire domains and […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[15457,103,15458,976,15460,378,9419,2209,15459],"class_list":["post-24286","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-liberty","tag-aaron-mackey","tag-canada","tag-corynne-mcsherry","tag-electronic-frontier-foundation","tag-equustek","tag-google","tag-internet-censorship","tag-supreme-court-of-canada","tag-vera-ranieri"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24286","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=24286"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24286\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":24287,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24286\/revisions\/24287"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=24286"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=24286"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=24286"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}