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Google to Pay Oz citizen $200K in Damages
by Belinda Merhab via broz - SMH Sunday, Nov 11 2012, 7:47pm
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and that only scratches the surface of Google's Improprieties

Google has been dragged before so many anti-trust and regulatory bodies for gross improprieties I've lost count; it's chair'man', Eric Schmidt, regularly attends secretive Bilderberg gatherings; Google has also entered into a business partnership with the notorious CIA after its then CEO, and current chairman, Eric 'sweetie' Schmidt, stated on the Rachel Maddow show that he wouldn't betray the trust people placed in his company or abuse its default status as the leading search engine. Well, so much for American integrity, any good web logger easily detects patterns (evidence) in Google's activity to a site and ALL indications are that Google now engages in widespread data suppression/censorship AND improper data management, as the following case in Oz (we know how to fight down here) highlights.

Google chairwoman, Eric Schmidt

An Aussie citizen of Serbian background easily won a case against this monstrous company and if anyone with a modicum of litigation sense would care to research Google's improper and grossly unfair activities they would see that the flood gates for litigation are WIDE OPEN. Choke on it Mr Schmidt, your Bilderberg connections can't help you down here, mate! Fuck with us and we'll destroy YOU and cripple your company -- care for a demonstration? Some of our top coders remain in your employ, though most walked after assessing the types they were working for. We'll bring you down from the inside and outside, 'sweetie!'

Google to pay Melbourne man $200K in damages

A Melbourne man who successfully sued Google for defaming him by linking him to underworld figures has been awarded $200,000 in damages from the US search engine.

Michael Trkulja was shot in the back as he dined in a St Albans restaurant in 2004.

He sued Google upon finding that a search of his name would bring up his image on the same page as convicted drug boss Tony Mokbel.

An article about his shooting was published under the heading "Melbourne crime".

A Victorian Supreme Court jury found the publications implied Mr Trkulja was so involved with crime in Melbourne that his rivals had hired a hitman to murder him.

Justice David Beach on Monday ordered Google Inc to pay Mr Trkulja $200,000 in damages for continuing to publish the defamatory material between October and December 2009, despite having received a letter from Mr Trkulja's lawyers in September asking for its removal.

The trial heard Mr Trkulja had been a show business manager for 40 years, had a top rating television show in the 1990s and was a highly respected member of the Serbian community in Melbourne.

The publications by Google had caused him devastation, hurt and stress, the court heard.

Google denied that the meanings alleged by Mr Trkulja were conveyed and pleaded innocent dissemination, arguing its publication system was fully automated.

Justice Beach said the jury was entitled to find that Google intended to publish the material produced by its automated systems because that was what Google employees had designed the systems to do.

"In that sense, Google Inc is like the newsagent that sells a newspaper containing a defamatory article," he said.

"While there might be no specific intention to publish defamatory material, there is a relevant intention by the newsagent to publish the newspaper for the purposes of the law of defamation."

Mr Trkulja earlier this year was also awarded $225,000 in damages from the Yahoo!7 search engine over its publication of the material.

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