[governance] DCMA and Google's Filtering - What about the right to the Internet for rest of the world?

[parminder]

Dear Fouad

You raise a very important issue.

Use of the Internet for enforcing US law on the whole world is a huge 
problem, which problem will keep getting aggravated as the Internet 
increasingly mediates more and more of our social realities. This 
problem requires a well considered global response. Any suggestions 
about what it could be?? - which is an open question for all.

Also to answer one of your specific questions, Fouad, - it is indeed 
similar to SOPA in its extra-territorial extension of US law.

Parminder


On Friday 06 January 2012 04:42 AM, Fouad Bajwa wrote:
> Dear all,
>
> I have a question as a result of something I have been noting for some
> time now. Sometimes while I search for certain information via
> www.google.com.pk, Pakistan's version of Google.com, I get a message
> as below:
>
> "In response to a complaint we received under the US Digital
> Millennium Copyright Act, we have removed 1 result(s) from this page.
> If you wish, you may read the DMCA complaint that caused the
> removal(s) at ChillingEffects.org"
>
> This is Google's DCMA Policy:
> http://support.google.com/bin/answer.py?hl=en&answer=1386831
>
> The question is, I am on a ccTLD and regional service of Google.
> - Is Google bound to service my region (broker information,
> information intermediary, information filtering) without any prior
> information?
> - Is it bound to enforce DCMA on Pakistan?
> - How is this being implemented to a search request from a region by a
> US based company's regional country specific service.
> - Isn't this similar to SOPA?
> - How does Google have the right to filter my results under any
> copyright law that is not legislated by my country?
> - How does Google have the right to enforce US based copyright laws
> without a multilateral treaty or understanding?
> - How do I get over this confusion now that I am witnessing it?
>
>
>    
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