On Tuesday, the EU essentially said that it agreed with that decision, allowing the case to set a precedent for blocking search engine access to public information while leaving the host untouched. “It’s an incredibly big deal,” Jeff Hermes, director of the Digital Media Law Project at Harvard University, said. “Search engines are still important as an index to the Internet. It’s like if you tucked information into a book in the library and then removed the card catalog, to use a very 20th century analogy.”

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