SA woman wins second Google defamation lawsuit – ACS
Google was liable for links to a defamatory website.
A South Australian woman has successfully won her second defamation lawsuit against Google after a Supreme Court judge found the tech giant had published “highly offensive” material by indexing defamatory web pages on its search engine.
Dr Janice Duffy won $100,000 in a 2015 defamation case against Google after the company failed to remove reference to defamatory posts on the Ripoff Report forum which were picked up by Google’s web crawler and delivered as search results.
Ripoff Report “profits from extortive business practices”, according to the judgement handed down last week, which includes offering a service to have negative mentions of an individual or organisation’s business practices removed at a cost.
The forum is notorious for changing the URL of its posts to subvert search engines’ attempts to block posts about specific people.
Dr Duffy and her legal team “were effectively stuck on a never-ending treadmill” of…
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