A Paris court has ordered Google to halt a planned project that would reportedly remove certain media articles from search results in France. The ruling came in response to an emergency injunction filed…
  • moody@lemmings.worldEnglish
    103·
    12 hours ago

    Google is trying to pick and choose who to filter out of results.

    The SEPM claims that Google was preparing to test a scheme that would exclude articles from specific media outlets with which it is in dispute over rights to online news content.

    • catloaf@lemm.eeEnglish
      7·
      11 hours ago

      Yeah. They said they didn’t want Google to do anything without paying, so Google is removing them. Is that not what they wanted?

    • conciselyverbose@sh.itjust.worksEnglish
      51·
      10 hours ago

      If those sites think that being linked to is a service they’re providing Google (which demanding payment implies), then Google is just fulfilling their wishes.