When "reputation management" becomes perjury, forgery and fraud against America's federal courts
by Cory Doctorow from on (#1XQ8N)
If you want to get a piece of information removed from the internet, there are few tools more powerful that a court judgment saying that it is defamatory. A judgment like that will get Google to de-index the result and frighten most web-hosts into getting rid of it. So it follows that the sleaziest end of the "reputation management" industry has occupied itself with securing these court orders at high volumes and low costs. (more")