Germany's Former First Lady Sues Google

quax writes "Bettina Wulff faces an uphill battle for her reputation. Her husband had to resign as Germany's president due to corruption allegations and has many detractors. Apparently some of them started a character assassination campaign against his wife. At least that is, if you trust serious journalists who looked into the matter and stated that it is made up. Unfortunately though for Bettina Wulff, the rumors took off on the Internet. Now whenever you enter her name Google suggest the additional search terms 'prostitute' and 'escort.' Google refuses to alter its search index."

Re:European law takes these things seriously

[puto]

Que pesar means, what a shame, or what a burden. Pesar has more uses than weigh.

Re:European law takes these things seriously

[slashmydots]

I don't know if you and she know this but Google isn't hosting the content. They're just showing you that other websites are hosting the content. If she wants to go rage around the internet like a psychobitch, she should target the websites hosting the content. If they're gone, the listings magically disappear from Google too! Wow, amazing! Google makes exactly the opposite of a claim that what they're listing in their search results is guaranteed truthful fact so she should shut up and learn how the internet works.

Re:European law takes these things seriously

[Anonymous Coward]

Germany not wanting to remember the holocaust,

Are you out of your mind? The only nation on earth where you are more reminded of the Holocaust on every possible occasion is Israel.

You know very little about the real world.

Re:European law takes these things seriously

[Tom]

Germany not wanting to remember the holocaust

Please take your pills again, otherwise you'll write more nonsense.

If you grow up in Germany, you will get fed everything about the holocaust until you are sick of it. It will be the topic of (mandatory) history class for at least half a year, usually one year.

There's stuff on TV about the holocaust every week. There's lots of books in the history section of book stores.

The jewish lobby organisations have a massive influence, and if you want to kill a political topic dead, all you need to do is find a convincing way to link it to the holocaust. For example, there's a current discussion regarding the legality of circumcision for religious purposes. We're not talking about something done by a doctor in a hospital under anesthesia, but about the religious ceremony where some priest cuts of a part of your dick as a child without any painkillers. A court recently ruled that strictly speaking, that is assault. There was an uproar within Germany because both muslims and jews do that to their kids. In the media, the jewish position takes headlines, while the muslim position is rarely mentioned. There are about 200,000 jews in Germany, but 3.6 million muslims. Jewish speakers seriously said that this court decision "is the worst thing that happened to judaism in Germany since the holocaust".

Israel is more likely to forget about the holocaust than Germany is.

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[Tom]

To be fair, there'd be quite a few more Jews if your relatives hadn't murdered them.

One, yes, though not as many as you probably assume. The official number is 570.000 - most of those murdered were in Poland and other invaded countries.

Two, my grandfather was murdered by the Nazis for being a member of the german resistance. So shut the fuck up.