{"id":4471,"date":"2022-01-23T17:37:32","date_gmt":"2022-01-23T16:37:32","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/2022\/01\/23\/google-warns-of-devastating-impact-if-court-ruling-on-defamatory-hyperlinks-not-overturned\/"},"modified":"2022-01-23T17:37:32","modified_gmt":"2022-01-23T16:37:32","slug":"google-warns-of-devastating-impact-if-court-ruling-on-defamatory-hyperlinks-not-overturned","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/2022\/01\/23\/google-warns-of-devastating-impact-if-court-ruling-on-defamatory-hyperlinks-not-overturned\/","title":{"rendered":"Google warns of \u2018devastating\u2019 impact if court ruling on defamatory hyperlinks not overturned"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Tech company says it will be forced to \u2018censor\u2019 search results if $40,000 damages win for Melbourne solicitor is allowed to stand<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/australia-news\/series\/australian-news-live\/latest\">Follow our Australia news live blog for the latest updates<\/a><\/li>\n<li><strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/technology\/ng-interactive\/2018\/may\/15\/the-guardian-app?CMP=cvau_sfl\">Download the free Guardian app<\/a>; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/guardian-australia-morning-mail\/2014\/jun\/24\/-sp-guardian-australias-morning-mail-subscribe-by-email?CMP=cvau_sfl\">get our morning email briefing<\/a><\/strong><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Google has warned of a \u201cdevastating\u201d impact on the internet if a court ruling that the search giant is liable for defamatory material contained in hyperlinked pages is not overturned.<\/p>\n<p>Google warned in a <a href=\"https:\/\/cdn.hcourt.gov.au\/assets\/cases\/06-Melbourne\/m86-2021\/Google-App.pdf\">submission<\/a> to the high court it will be forced to \u201ccensor\u201d its search results if <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/media\/2020\/apr\/30\/melbourne-gangland-lawyer-george-defteros-wins-defamation-case-against-google\">a $40,000 defamation damages award<\/a> to George Defteros, a solicitor who represented Melbourne gangland figures, is allowed to stand.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/guardian-australia-morning-mail\/2014\/jun\/24\/-sp-guardian-australias-morning-mail-subscribe-by-email?CMP=copyembed\">Sign up to receive an email with the top stories from Guardian Australia every morning<\/a><\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/technology\/2022\/jan\/24\/google-warns-of-devastating-impact-if-court-ruling-on-defamatory-hyperlinks-not-overturned\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><br \/>\n<img src=\"https:\/\/i.guim.co.uk\/img\/media\/7dce3cf008773dda3d6bc9048d44a65e5715fe19\/0_226_5000_3002\/master\/5000.jpg?width=140&amp;quality=85&amp;auto=format&amp;fit=max&amp;s=3ae52a24b4ee70fd0d6331aa1edd69cc\" title=\"Google warns of \u2018devastating\u2019 impact if court ruling on defamatory hyperlinks not overturned\" \/>Tech company says it will be forced to \u2018censor\u2019 search results if $40,000 damages win for Melbourne solicitor is allowed to stand<\/p>\n<p>Follow our Australia news live blog for the latest updates<br \/>\nDownload the free Guardian app; get our morning email briefing<\/p>\n<p>Google has warned of a \u201cdevastating\u201d impact on the internet if a court ruling that the search giant is liable for defamatory material contained in hyperlinked pages is not overturned.<br \/>\nGoogle warned in a submission to the high court it will be forced to \u201ccensor\u201d its search results if a $40,000 defamation damages award to George Defteros, a solicitor who represented Melbourne gangland figures, is allowed to stand.<br \/>\nSign up to receive an email with the top stories from Guardian Australia every morning Continue reading&#8230;Technology | The Guardian<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Tech company says it will be forced to \u2018censor\u2019 search results if $40,000 damages win for Melbourne solicitor is allowed to stand Follow our Australia news live blog for the latest updates Download the free Guardian app; get our morning email briefing Google has warned of a \u201cdevastating\u201d impact on the internet if a court &hellip;<\/p>\n<p class=\"read-more\"> <a class=\"\" href=\"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/2022\/01\/23\/google-warns-of-devastating-impact-if-court-ruling-on-defamatory-hyperlinks-not-overturned\/\"> <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Google warns of \u2018devastating\u2019 impact if court ruling on defamatory hyperlinks not overturned<\/span> Read More &raquo;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":0,"featured_media":4472,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4471"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4471"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4471\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/4472"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4471"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4471"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4471"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}