Re: Google and the South African Internet

I really do hope for your sake, this list is not archived and searchable on
the Internet, because then you have a real problem on your hands.

On Sat, Dec 12, 2015 at 11:33 AM, Kieran Murphy <[email protected]> wrote:

>    Andre, I'm sure I'm not the only one here who thinks you've crossed a
>    line now.
>    I was happy to just sit back and watch your little rant in amusement,
>    but I think its time to point out a few facts.
>    The difference here is that what you've effectively done is
>    slanderA Aragon Gouveia.
>    Whereas the anonymous poster on MyBroadband wasA merelyA posting a
>    fact.
>    Yes, I'm sure this fact is inconvenient for you. But it remains a fact.
>    Is it annoying that nothing can be done about it?
>    But if a prospecting employer believes that doing a google search for
>    such a common name and believing the results without verification is
>    sufficient to impact their decisions, would you really want to work
>    there anyway?
>    Lets just hope, for your sake, thatA Aragon Gouveia doesn't feel like
>    taking this further, or there might be another inconvenient fact about
>    you available in some public court records.
>    Regards,
>    Kieran Murphy
>
>    On 12 December 2015 at 18:31, Andre Coetzee <[1][email protected]>
>    wrote:
>
>      On Fri, 11 Dec 2015 12:48:49 +0200
>      Aragon Gouveia <[2][email protected]> wrote:
>      > Hi,
>      > On 2015/12/11 11:51, Andre Coetzee wrote:
>      > > I have exhausted all avenues
>      >
>      > Have you considered changing your name?
>      >
>      so this is a joke to you? maybe not, maybe you are being serious?
>      Okay, lets say I do change my name, to: Aragon Gouveia
>      and I get arrested for child porn as a pedophile.
>      Then Aragon Gouveia would be on the front page of all newspapers and
>      on
>      the first page of search results, forever, as a pedofile.
>      Maybe when you even search "pedophile" the name Aragon Gouveia will
>      be
>      connected to it?
>      Then, will you accept that the best advice for you, as just another
>      Aragon Gouveia, would be to change your name?
>      So search results, Aragon Gouveia pedophile, would be on
>      the first page of Google, if some "respected" site, like
>      [3]mybroadband.co.za would run an " Aragon Gouveia pedophile"
>      article...
>      but that is not all..
>      In the next few days, when you search "pedophile"A  on [4]gmane.org,
>      you
>      will find this post...(even when you misspell it as pedofile, it
>      will
>      also be right there...) - you will now have to go to the trouble of
>      asking for it to be removed, maybe they will - maybe they will
>      not...
>      This is my life that I am talking about and also the life of my
>      still
>      small children. Making flippant and snide remarks that serves no
>      purpose other than to bait (I am not a fish) only serves to prove
>      that
>      which anyone with a brain probably suspected about you.
>      andre
>
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>    2. mailto:[email protected]
>    3. http://mybroadband.co.za/
>    4. http://gmane.org/
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