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Abstract: This report examines a
newspaper-led campaign to have a site
removed from both its host and the Google search index. The uproar
turned out to originate from a single page of text of "sick humor".
I've investigated the background behind a campaign of a UK
newspaper, the "Chester Chronicle", to have material removed from the
web (not successfully - so far) and from Google's index (successfully!).
The campaign appears to be a "moral panic" arising from confusing
an archived text column of "sick humor", written under a pen-name
of "Chester the Molester", for a paedophile site."
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