[IP] Google sued over child porn claims
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From: EEkid@xxxxxxx
Date: May 5, 2006 11:32:13 PM EDT
To: dave@xxxxxxxxxx
Subject: Google sued over child porn claims
Google sued over child porn claims
A Long Island politician sued Google on Thursday claiming the search
engine leader is profiting from illegal child pornography.
Jeffrey Toback, a member of the Nassau County Legislature, said
Google has paid links to Web sites containing pornography involving
minors.
"This case is about a multi-billion dollar company that promotes and
profits from child pornography," said the complaint filed in state
Supreme Court in Mineola.
A Google spokesman denied the allegations and said the Californian-
based company takes numerous steps to prevent access to child
pornography.
"When we find or are made aware of any child pornography, we remove
it from our products, including our search engine," spokesman Steve
Langdon said in an e-mail statement to The Associated Press. "We also
report it to the appropriate law enforcement officials and fully
cooperate with the law enforcement community to combat child
pornography."
Langdon also said Google offers a service called SafeSearch for its
search engine "that works to filter out adult content."
The lawsuit, which calls Google "the largest and most efficient
facilitator and distributor of child pornography in th world," does
not name other widely used search engines such as Yahoo or
Microsoft's MSN.
Toback said he filed suit because oversight over Google was far
beyond the purview of county legislators.
"This is a proactive step to keep children safe," Toback said in a
telephone interview. "We had to go the judicial route."
The lawsuit does not seek specific monetary damages, but wants Google
to prohibit "advertising relating to Web sites that display, market
or otherwise provide illegal access to pornography."
http://www.smh.com.au/news/breaking/google-sued-over-child-porn-
claims/2006/05/05/1146335905109.html
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