Google removal - Chester's Guide to Molesting Google
From: Seth Finkelstein
To: Seth Finkelstein's InfoThought list
Subject: IT: Google removal - Chester's Guide to Molesting Google
Date: Tue, 25 Feb 2003 11:27:35 -0500
New report:
Chester's Guide to Molesting Google
http://sethf.com/anticensorware/general/chester.php
Abstract: This report examines a newspaper-led campaign to have a site removed from both its host and the Google search index. The uproar turned out to originate from a single page of text of "sick humor".
I've investigated the background behind a campaign of a UK newspaper, the "Chester Chronicle", to have material removed from the web (not successfully - so far) and from Google's index (successfully!). The campaign appears to be a "moral panic" arising from confusing an archived text column of "sick humor", written under a pen-name of "Chester the Molester", for a paedophile site.
URL of Chester Chronicle article describing success against Google index:
"Sick website taken down"
http://iccheshireonline.icnetwork.co.uk/0100news/0100regionalnews/page.cfm?objectid=12663897&method=full&siteid=50020
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