Google protect crooks

Google can be very high-handed in dealing with those who use their services.  They seem to see us as disposable trash.  Which is fair enough, I suppose.  You get what you pay for and most Google services are free.

I think it is a cause of concern, however, when they protect crooks at the expense of the general public.  If crooks can cover their tracks, they can go on deceiving and ripping off people.

And Google DO protect crooks.  If some crook asks for a report of his misdeeds to be deleted, Google will delete it from their servers.  They can't be bothered weighing up the rights and wrongs of complaints, apparently.  So crooks appear to have a completely open go to sanitize their record.

That has happened to me twice now.  Two shady gentlemen in Australia about whom I had blogged succeeded in getting my blog posts taken down by Google.  I reproduce below the latest takedown notice and a follow-up notice when I attempted to protest. Google have effectively blocked any communication from me.

The shady characters are Paul Darveniza and Ali Davut Sarikaya, also known as Dr David Kaye.  I have used one of my old Wordpress blogs to repost the news  items that Google deleted.  See here.  I would be obliged if people would link to it.  We might get justice back on the road that way.

Blogger blog takedown notification

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