(haipo) - MM The chairman of the Israel Bar Association, lawyer Tami Ullman, is suing Google for one million shekels, as compensation for defamatory publication, negligence, wrongdoing and invasion of privacy. and also requests in the lawsuit a declaratory judgment and an injunction obliging Google to remove the publications and to prevent the continuation of similar publications in the future.
This is a website whose operators cannot be identified and through which things are spread against Ullman, while Google serves as a platform that mediates between the website and the public and does not remove the offensive content.
We note that this is an issue that bothers many around the world whose content concerning them is uploaded to Google's servers and there is difficulty in removing it.
Attorney Ullman submitted the claim through Attorney Yoel Goldberg from Haifa on 10/1/24 to the Magistrate's Court in Kiryat.
The main points of the claim
The lawsuit claims that a delusional blogger who goes by the name of Edna Carnival, published on her website offensive, insulting, and false articles based on baseless statements, against Attorney Ullman, her family members and her office, against the background of her success in her profession and her public activity in the Bar Association, during where she served as chairwoman of the Haifa Bar Association and then as a candidate in the elections for the presidency of the Israel Bar Association.
The defendant, the Google company, is used as a tool to spread the false words of hatred and abomination, which did not prevent Ullman's election as vice-chairman of the Israel Bar Association.
It is also written that there is reason to believe that the blogger, who identifies herself as "Carnival", who is a fictitious character and cannot be located, is being used as a messenger by political parties, who seek to discredit the name of Attorney Ullman for not committing any wrongdoing, and only because she is a highly respected lawyer who manages A respected law firm at the highest level that has been praised by all lawyers and courts for decades and is known as a reputable and successful lawyer in the world of criminal law.
The articles on the site are worded in vulgar language, with the blogger Carnival using low-level offensive expressions and vulgar language, the language of the market, and it is clear that there is an obligation to remove and dispose of the publications immediately, in view of their falsehoods and toxicity without any factual basis, paying attention to the statements that appear in the bulletin board as well as in all the other articles.
It is further argued that it is unthinkable that a respected company such as Google would allow the unrestrained lashing out at the plaintiff and without any connection to the legal proceedings that the plaintiff intends to take against the blogger after being located, including the filing of a criminal complaint and a complaint to the Israel Police.
In the lawsuit, Google is required to remove the advertisement immediately, in order to reduce the damages caused to the plaintiff due to the malicious act and damage to her good name, and for this purpose, the plaintiff petitions for a declaratory judgment and an injunction requiring the defendant to remove the advertisements and to prevent the continuation of similar advertisements in the future.
"Google is used as a platform to spread defamation"
Although the site itself is not under the control of Google, and no one claims otherwise, but according to the lawsuit, Google is used as a platform for spreading defamation and does not prevent the publication of the scorned site, when the publication is carried out on the fertile soil of the Google-controlled search engine.
Without the tremendous exposure that the search engine allows, the potential for damage that turns out to be from the published publications decreases immeasurably. Therefore, it is clear that the cumulative damages caused to Attorney Ullman are enormous, in view of the filth of the advertising, when Google is a full partner in the most effective damage, i.e. the filth. The removal of the advertising is considered a legal norm that imposes responsibility on the owners of digital platforms, as a basis for breaching the duty of care within the scope of the tort of negligence, as stated In sections 35-36 of the Damages Ordinance.
Attorney Ullman told Lahi Pa: "This is a pirated website, with no address and no email or mail. A website that is busy defaming judges and lawyers and it's time to deal with it legally."
And as usual - I never thought politics had solutions. A-politics.
Our love for the pentagonal judging system is not limited to just a huge number like Google.. there is more..
You seem to miss censorship...
It's a bit like suing the fire department for damage caused by a fire they put out, claiming they should have done more.
Or the Magen David Adom that failed to bring an injured person to the hospital in time and he died on the way because they did not drive fast enough.
You blame the arms companies for the killings caused to civilians as a result of the use of weapons they produce, etc., etc.
Hopeless. Like suing Israel Post for hate mail.
Waste of time and money, good luck.
A ghost claims. Nobody knows a carnival
I hope Ullman wins. She helped us a lot years ago. Cannon.
The lawyer Tammy Ullman is interesting