Removing things from internet sites

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Hey all. So I met one man who is regretful of their past and wants to turn things around. Apparently one of their issues is they had a few videos on You tube that are offensive, and that is hurting their chances of getting a job. I read about a DCMA takedown notice? Does anyone know about these things? It’s a bit out of my league.
 
In Europe, Google was required to acknowledge and fix requests in the Right to be Forgotten ruling. So, I believe a request to Google to remove content…even in the US will be done (I think so, anyway). If so, this will remove any content from Google administered sites. That’s a good start but any other content from any non Google sites will have to pursued one by one…and may or may not be successful.

Unfortunately, our life on the internet should always be assumed to be a permanent record. We really can’t require forgetting anything we’ve published so a lesson to remember! Good luck!
 
Thanks so much. How does one do that?

I agree on the web being permanent mostly. I’m glad I grew up before it was as big as it is now.
 
I would start with a search of the persons name in Google. Print out the list of hits that apply and then contact Google. Contacting google is probably the hardest step! 😂. They do have contact numbers but be prepared to be on hold and transferred around a bit…that’s just an assumption on my part. Let them know you want to have certain websites taken down and/or no longer shown in a search. See what happens! I give no guarantees as I’ve never done it before.
 
Thanks, great idea. Feel for the current generation. I’ll pass it on!
 
Most of the youth today are much more aware of the permanence of the internet than older generations…they’ve grown up always having it! They KNOW how toxic it is…much more aware than olders are!
 
DMCA is a copyright procedure that allows a copyright owner to have a video pulled if the video uses their copyrighted material. The most obvious examples are people who post popular songs or movies to Youtube without getting permission from the rights owner (usually some big company like Warner or Sony) so their video is pulled or the sound is blanked.

If your friend who wants the videos removed does not own a copyright to any material in them, then the person’s best bet is to hire an Internet reputation specialist who helps people clean up their online reputations in situations like this. Ordinary people telling Google to take something down usually get ignored, in my experience, unless it’s some really extreme video showing graphic violence or suicide.
 
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Oddly enough, earlier today I was having the opposite problem, the impermanence of information on the internet. Anybody who is old enough to have been reading the newspapers in the seventies will recall certain dictators who remained in power until an advanced age, and who were reportedly being kept alive by what was euphemistically called “monkey gland treatment” (for “gland,” read “testicle”).

I certainly remember the case of Josip Broz Tito, the dictator of Yugoslavia, but there were others, possibly including the Spanish dictator Francisco Franco. The doctor who treated them was a woman. I think she was Romanian, but I’m not sure. And I have an idea that her first name was Vera, but after all these years, that’s not much more than a guess. I spent a half-hour or so hunting for her own name and her patients’ names, and I didn’t find anything at all. She seems to have been airbrushed out of history.
 
The monkey gland guy was a Russian doctor named Voronoff. He was world famous. He married a Romanian lady. He died in the 50s.
 
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Have you tried searching for monkey gland treatment? The hits on that search might lead to her name coming up? I agree, it’s frustrating when searching and not getting information that you know should be there somewhere. Changing the search terms often helps me!
 
Maybe it was his widow, then? She was certainly still active in the early seventies, maybe even later.And she was famous, as well, on account of the prominent political leaders who were her clients.
 
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Your best bet would be to search a news database. If you have any kind of college student or alumni access, maybe you can do that online.
 
Hmm interesting. I’ve heard it argued both ways tbh, by reputable sources. I guess I couldn’t hurt him to try. Hopefully they will respect it.
 
This, may sound dumb, but if he himself posted the videos can’t he just delete them from his creator section? If not maybe delete his entire Google account or delete tags and description and title?
 
Honestly I don’t know. I’m not much of a social media person and I don’t know what they are. Can’t other people copy them if something?
 
If he posted them then he should be able to remove them. Other people can download then repost them, sure, but how popular are these videos? There’s millions and millions of videos on YouTube so unless he’s someone really famous I would think the likelihood of other people copying them would be pretty low.
 
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