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…
  • catloaf@lemm.eeEnglish
    61·
    6 hours ago

    I’m confused. They said if Google wants to use it, they have to pay, so Google went to remove it, and now they’re saying Google can’t remove it?

    • moody@lemmings.worldEnglish
      71·
      4 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.

      • conciselyverbose@sh.itjust.worksEnglish
        21·
        2 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.

      • catloaf@lemm.eeEnglish
        3·
        3 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?

  • Ganbat@lemmy.dbzer0.comEnglish
    7·
    7 hours ago

    Considering that some searches right now tend to be thirty different “news” sites republishing the same article… I dunno how to feel about this.

    • Squizzy@lemmy.worldEnglish
      2·
      3 hours ago

      That was always the way, big news pulled from the likes of the AP and Reuters and rephrased. A lot of today’s just isnt rephrased.