Terrorists are trying to use a European court ruling to wipe stories about their trials from Google in a move which amounts to censorship by the back door, Sajid Javid warned today. The Culture Secretary condemned ‘Luxembourg’s unelected judges’ who created the so-called ‘right to be forgotten’ by forcing search engines to remove links to news stories. In a forthright speech to newspaper editors, Mr Javid accused European courts of ‘trying to restrict media freedom’ and took aim at the BBC for competing with news websites like MailOnline. Culture Secretary Sajid Javid warned unaccountable European judges were 'trying to restrict media freedom’, creating a new right to be forgotten which amounted to 'censorship by the back door'
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Law allows EU citizens to ask for links to be removed from Google search
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Sajid Javid accuses unelected judges of restricting media freedom
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Google has received nearly 500,000 requests to remove links
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Culture Secretary questions whether domination of BBC website
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A November 2007 story about a paedophile Ronald Castree who in 1975 abducted 11-year-old Lesley Molseed with learning difficulties before abusing and murdering her. Click here to read the story
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A May 2009 story told how father of two, Hugh Wilson, 63, died when his light aircraft crashed near Sherborne, Dorset. Click here to read to read the story
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A May 2009 article describing the sordid captivity in which Josef Fritzl kept his family. The piece was based on extracts from the book ‘The Crimes of Josef Fritzl: Uncovering the Truth’. Publisher Harper Collins told MailOnline today it does not know who sent the request. Click here to read the story.
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A September 2010 article about multi-millionaire Tory MP Jonathan Djanogly, who admitted hiring private eyes to spy on his local party members. Mr Djanogly told MailOnline today he has not used the Google service himself and declined to comment further. Click here to read the story.
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A December 2003 column on how the schoolfriend of Prince William, Edward Stanbury, was jailed for nine months after 43 ecstasy tablets, 4.2 grammes of cocaine and three-quarters of a kilo of cannabis were found at his London flat. Click here to read the story.
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A March 2004 column by Richard Kay, also on Mr Stanbury, about how just weeks after he had been allowed home from prison, the Old Etonian had put his university studies aside and sold his flat. Click here to read the story.
Sajid Javid questioned whether the @placeholder website should be competing with commercial news sites like MailOnline.