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A U.S. judge has ruled that the Chinese search engine Baidu has the right to block pro-democracy works from its query results, dismissing a lawsuit that sought to punish the company for Internet censorship.
The lawsuit against Baidu, originally filed in 2011 by eight activists in New York, claimed that the Chinese search engine had violated U.S. laws on free speech. This was because Baidu had been censoring pro-democracy works on its search engine for not only its users in China, but also for those accessing the site from New York.
The lawsuit demanded Baidu pay US$16 million in damages. But on Thursday, U.S. District Judge Jesse Furman of the U.S. District Court for the Southern District of New York ruled against the activists, and said requiring Baidu to include pro-democracy works in its search results would run afoul of the U.S.s free speech laws.
In his ruling, Furman compared Baidus blocking of pro-democracy works to a newspapers right to exercise editorial control to publish what it wants. In Baidus case, the company has created a search engine that favors certain political speech.
The First Amendment protects Baidus right to advocate for systems of government other than democracy [in China or elsewhere] just as surely as it protects Plaintiffs rights to advocate for democracy, wrote Furman.
Baidu is also not stopping U.S. users from accessing the pro-democracy works through other search engines such as Google or Bing, the judge added.
On Friday, the Chinese search company did not immediately respond to a request for comment. But the law firm representing Baidu in the case said the ruling was a victory for the free speech rights of Internet search engines.
It shows that our courts protect the right of all media to choose what they publish, said attorney Carey Ramos in a statement. That right extends to Internet media as well as print media. And it protects Chinese media as much as American media.
The activists who filed the lawsuit against Baidu could not be reached for comment.
Last year in March, Furman had initially dismissed the lawsuit because Baidu was not properly served court papers, but later the case was allowed to proceed.
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US judge rules Baidu's censorship is protected as free speech
The lawsuit was filed by a group of eight New York-based content producers who say Baidus search engine algorithms (Baidus main Internet function) block material in the U.S. per the Chinese governments heavy censorship laws, and that violates the Constitution, Reuters says. Their content mostly advocated for more democracy in China.
But U.S. District Judge Jesse Furman in Manhattan disagrees. He likened Baidus algorithms to a newspapers editorial stance and says that The First Amendment protects Baidu's right to advocate for systems of government other than democracy (in China or elsewhere) just as surely as it protects plaintiffs' rights to advocate for democracy.
The activists sought $16 million in damages from Baidu and plan to appeal the ruling. Their lawyer Stephen Preziosi said that the court has laid out a perfect paradox: that it will allow the suppression of free speech, in the name of free speech, following the ruling.
Baidu provides access to streaming music and video and it even runs a Wikipedia-like encyclopedia service (that only registered users can edit). It has more than 500 million regular users in China and a small but significant population of users in the United States.
Baidu is the fifth-most trafficked site on the planet, according to Alexa, an Amazon-owned web traffic monitor. Only Yahoo.com, YouTube, Facebook and Google generate more traffic and unique visitors, all of which are blocked or have subsidiary sites blocked in China.
Additionally, it is the top Chinese language search engine and it opened an English-language site for developers in February 2013. That move opened up English-speaking app developers to write tools for Chinese customers.
Bing, a Microsoft-owned search engine has also been accused of censoring its Chinese-language content. As recently as February 2014, search results for controversial topics were significantly different for Bings English and Chinese-language searches.
Google was accused of the same in China before it finally decided it would no longer comply with Chinese government censorship laws and pulled out. You can see if a website is blocked across China here.
Neither Baidu nor the Chinese embassy in Washington, D.C., responded to Reuters for comment.
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