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  • Jul 2nd, 2014 @ 4:15am

    Google has become the gatekeepers of the internet

    Google has become the gatekeepers of the internet – Google more and
    more is refusing to remove links to websites, posts which cause
    irreparable harm to companies and individuals whether it be defamation
    or companies involved in illegal activity.

    By way of google’s 80%+ share of the search engine market, google has become the defacto gatekeepers of the internet. A single company with over 50 billion in
    revenues decides on behalf of the world what information is accessible
    on the internet and what is not. This is too much power for one company.
    The public should be concerned of the overbearing power that Google
    has.

    The court decision was justified in that the internet is
    limitless and worldwide and the harm to the company is impacted not only
    in Canada.

    In Dow Jones & Company Inc. v. Gutnick, [2002]
    H.C.A. 56 (10 December 2002), that same judge – Kirby J., of the High
    Court of Australia — portrayed the Internet in these terms, at para. 80:
    The
    Internet is essentially a decentralized, self-maintained
    telecommunications network. It is made up of inter-linking small
    networks from all parts of the world. It is ubiquitous, borderless,
    global and ambient in its nature. Hence the term “cyberspace”.4 This is a
    word that recognizes that the interrelationships created by the
    Internet exist outside conventional geographic boundaries and comprise a
    single interconnected body of data, potentially amounting to a single
    body of knowledge. The Internet is accessible in virtually all places on
    Earth where access can be obtained either by wire connection or by
    wireless (including satellite) links.

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