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tb987 · #1 (**permalink**) 07-04-2008, 10:50 PM

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UK defamation complaint

The cease-and-desist or legal threat you requested is not yet available. Chilling Effects will post the notice after we process it.

Google has received a legal complaint and submitted it here to the Chilling Effects database, as described in Google's Digital Millennium Copyright Act policy. In response to the complaint, Google may have removed content from a search results page or hosted page.

From Chilling Effects Clearinghouse: Report Sending a Notice (step 2)

It was in a message I received in Google Webmaster tools

Have you every had one of these? What did you do?

OldWelshGuy · #2 (**permalink**) 07-04-2008, 10:55 PM

Send me some information via Pm, DO NOT post anything about this it will be monitored.

OWG

tb987 · #3 (**permalink**) 07-04-2008, 11:35 PM

I will post one more detail, I have PM'd you too.

It is interesting that they have only removed it from *.google.co.uk as it was a UK complaint and the US have the 1st amendment which is great (happy 4th July for US Google readers) and protects the content over there.

I wonder what would happen if I had a Tibetan forum would it be removed from Google at the request of the Chinese Government. What is their motto - do no evil. I think the anser is yes:

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/technology/4645596.stm