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That's not the issue here, the question is whether France can compel Google out of France's borders.

Do Google have any presence in France like offices or property which to give the judicial system in France jurisdiction to make this decision over the site?

France is making a point that there is a legitimate argument to be discussed about things that happen in France not be pushed out to the rest of the planet.

Google will tell France to go piss up a rope before they go along with this nonsense.

Google isn't going to pervert a host countries laws especially not France which is one of the gatekeepers of the EU.

Plus France would know lots of subsidiaries were being created and just implement additional safeguards.

The cynical thing is for France to aggress against the entire free world.

Those results can be changed if Google wants to do business in France and quite likely the EU if it all starts to escalate.

Because the EU and france forced google to control it.

The issue here is that France is trying to apply a local law that is not mutually agreed upon with any other country, to other countries.

No worries though, i'm sure, unlike every other country, france wouldn't try to use it's power to force any other country or multi-national corporation to do anything.

The argument that France appears to be making in this case is that it doesn't need other countries to agree to its demands, its courts have jurisdiction everywhere.

Labeling the opposing point to France's very strict defamation rules cannot be termed "ultra-liberal, privacy-be-damned" really.

"Recall that it is not obvious that revenue earned in a country that is not America should be taxed by America." Hey, remember that time when france tried to tax all the Google revenue not earned in france by claiming google ireland has a permanent establishment in france (and then claims google owes it a billion in tax when the max google possibly earned was a total of 237 million in google france?)?

It seems the judicial system in France could learn something from Colombia: "Seeking to balance the right to clarify the record and the right to freedom of expression, the [highest Constitutional Court in Colombia] held that the newspaper was not required to remove the article.

France, if you want to have whatever little censored version of the internet locked in bureaucratic stranglehold, fine.

Whatever one thinks of DSK, no court, in either the US or France, has found him guilty.

France's attempt to censor Google is an act of aggression against Google and all of its users.