<div dir="ltr"><div>Apologies for cross-posting.  This detective work by Eugene V and Paul L is remarkable for people following US takedown practice.  They found 25 court orders adjudicating Internet content defamatory, all seemingly obtained by suing fake defendants and entering fake stipulations - the goal being to provide Google with court orders supporting removal of web search results. </div><br><div class="gmail_quote"><div lang="EN-US" link="blue" vlink="purple"><div class="m_5339277521172898633WordSection1"><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif"> <a href="https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/volokh-conspiracy/wp/2016/10/10/dozens-of-suspicious-court-cases-with-missing-defendants-aim-at-getting-web-pages-taken-down-or-deindexed/" target="_blank">https://www.washingtonpost.<wbr>com/news/volokh-conspiracy/wp/<wbr>2016/10/10/dozens-of-<wbr>suspicious-court-cases-with-<wbr>missing-defendants-aim-at-<wbr>getting-web-pages-taken-down-<wbr>or-deindexed/</a> .  </span></p><div style="border:none;border-left:solid blue 1.5pt;padding:0in 0in 0in 4.0pt"><div><div><blockquote style="border:none;border-left:solid #cccccc 1.0pt;padding:0in 0in 0in 6.0pt;margin-left:4.8pt;margin-top:5.0pt;margin-right:0in;margin-bottom:5.0pt"><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:12.0pt"><br></p></blockquote></div></div></div></div></div></div><br><br clear="all"><div><br></div>-- <br><div class="gmail_signature" data-smartmail="gmail_signature"><div dir="ltr"><div><div><div>Daphne Keller<br></div>Director, Intermediary Liability<br></div>Center for Internet and Society<br></div>Stanford Law School<br></div></div>
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