Chinese Professor Suing Google And Yahoo For Making Him Disappear From Chinese Search
Posted on Friday, February 15, 2008 at 2:28 PM by Malcolm
Reported in Techdirt. Guo Quan, a professor in China who lost his job after founding a democracy group and pushing for a more democratic China, is going to sue Google and Yahoo for removing all results with his name in China. Google and Yahoo, of course, have agreed to play by local rules in China, upsetting many. Legally, it would seem like this suit has little chance of success. What this actually does is to call attention to his plight -- and on that front, it's clearly a successful strategy.
