In the thorny French Bukkake case, still under investigation, the protagonists are known. On the one hand, 17 men who, between 2013 and 2019, participated in the production and distribution of several hundred pornographic videos of incredible violence, which earned them accusations of “gang rape,” “organized gang trafficking of human beings.” and “aggravated trafficking in human beings.” procuring”. On the other, about forty of his victims. Women manipulated, attacked and raped, whose torments were spread online on pornographic sites.
But recently, the case has another party: Google. The American technology giant, more precisely its Californian entity Google LLC, was sentenced on Wednesday, November 6, by the French courts, within the framework of a judicial process that began in 2023 and separate from the criminal aspect of the case. In fact, Google was sued by one of the victims of the French Bukkake (FB) network. He criticized the American company for indexing in its search engine websites that contain videos of the rapes he suffered during the filming of pornographic videos labeled as FB.
However, the complainant did everything possible to obtain his delisting. In particular, it claims to have completed on several occasions the complaint form made available by Google, which allows it to group requests from its users regarding the deindexation of certain content.
But for four years he has only gotten answers. “random”. “Some requests are rejected without justification, others are accepted, but duplicates of the videos in question immediately appear (same title, same content)”summarized in an October statement by the ¡Atrévete al Feminismo! association, civil party in the criminal part of the case, as well as other signatory organizations. “A Sisyphean torture for the plaintiffs”who constantly face their traumas.
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Therefore, in July 2023, a letter of formal notice is sent to Google LLC. “based on the law of trust in the digital economy”is related to World the plaintiff’s lawyer, Romain Darrière. The latter also invokes violations of the right to image, respect for private life and human dignity. But once again, the plaintiff receives a “partial response” from Google a few weeks later, he laments.
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