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I fail to see how this judgment is any different from those where the courts ordered ISPs to block sites like the piratebay. If you're ok with one kind of interference about third parties linking to stuff you should probably be ok with all of them, and if you're against interference in this case you should probably be against interference in general.

It's very hard to argue consistently that the one is ok and the other is not. I strongly believe any kind of interference is bad. If you have beef with someone sue them, don't involve the facilitator.



I think the difference here is that the court is asking Google to remove the links worldwide, not just for people accessing Google from within Canada.


There was a similar case a few years ago with Yahoo vs France, iirc France prevailed:

http://www.nytimes.com/2001/01/04/news/04iht-yahoo.2.t.html




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