{"id":829,"date":"2014-05-07T16:11:47","date_gmt":"2014-05-07T16:11:47","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.law.harvard.edu\/berkmannews\/?p=829"},"modified":"2014-05-07T16:11:47","modified_gmt":"2014-05-07T16:11:47","slug":"google-autocomplete-still-blocking-bisexual-lgbt-advocates-fight-for-fair-treatment-of-search-terms-7-may-2014","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/berkmannews\/2014\/05\/07\/google-autocomplete-still-blocking-bisexual-lgbt-advocates-fight-for-fair-treatment-of-search-terms-7-may-2014\/","title":{"rendered":"Google Autocomplete Still Blocking \u2018Bisexual\u2019: LGBT Advocates Fight For Fair Treatment Of Search Terms, 7 May 2014"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Jeff Hermes, director of the Digital Media Law Project at Harvard University, who has followed those lawsuits, said he believes similar autocomplete court battles would be \u201cdoomed to failure\u201d in the United States, where Google has strong First Amendment protections on its side. \u201cFundamentally, it\u2019s Google\u2019s search engine and they can do what they want with it,\u201d he told IBTimes. \u201cThey can impose whatever filter they want on particular results, so a legal claim there is unlikely to be successful.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>via <a href=\"http:\/\/www.ibtimes.com\/google-autocomplete-still-blocking-bisexual-lgbt-advocates-fight-fair-treatment-search-1580929?utm_source=News%40Law+subscribers&amp;utm_campaign=1b850fb99d-News_Law_Wednesday_May_7_2014_5_7_2014&amp;utm_medium=email&amp;utm_term=0_856982f9c6-1b850fb99d-259577617\">Google Autocomplete Still Blocking \u2018Bisexual\u2019: LGBT Advocates Fight For Fair Treatment Of Search Terms<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Jeff Hermes, director of the Digital Media Law Project at Harvard University, who has followed those lawsuits, said he believes similar autocomplete court battles would be \u201cdoomed to failure\u201d in the United States, where Google has strong First Amendment protections &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/berkmannews\/2014\/05\/07\/google-autocomplete-still-blocking-bisexual-lgbt-advocates-fight-for-fair-treatment-of-search-terms-7-may-2014\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1681,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-829","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/berkmannews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/829","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/berkmannews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/berkmannews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/berkmannews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1681"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/berkmannews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=829"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/berkmannews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/829\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":830,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/berkmannews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/829\/revisions\/830"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/berkmannews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=829"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/berkmannews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=829"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/berkmannews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=829"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}