Judge orders Google, Facebook and others to delist counterfeit goods web sites

Found on The Inquirer on Wednesday, 30 November 2011
Browse Censorship

Judge Dawson of the Nevada US District Court ordered Google, Microsoft and Yahoo to delist the offending web sites from their search engines, and also told Facebook, Twitter and Google to remove the links from their social networks, according to the BBC.

The judge also ordered domain name company Godaddy to take control of the web site domains and block them from being accessed.

For now this works. Things will get more interesting with distributed search engines like YaCy and registrar-less domains. Without a central point, it's hard to censor.