![]() ![]() What is especially lame is that google allows people to claim DMCA on search results reporting **links**, mere addresses, to allegedly infringing content as opposed to the content itself. Oh, Donna Barstow, how soon you have forgotten Barbara Streisand. If you wish, you may read the DMCA complaint that caused the removal(s) at ."įortunately the Popehat article is now the number one link, even if one of the search results is censored. "In response to a complaint we received under the US Digital Millennium Copyright Act, we have removed 1 result(s) from this page. If you Google "Donna Barstow" you get this at the bottom of the search results page: It is, as of right now, successful, at least in part. Unfortunately, it is more than an effort. All The President's Lawyers: - September 11th, as the post says, it's an effort to get Google to remove the post from Google results.".Over At Crime Story, A Post About the College Bribery Scandal - September 13th, 2019.All The President's Lawyers: No Bill Thrill? - September 19th, 2019.Now Posting At Substack - August 27th, 2020.I presume they won't fall for what I can only characterize as a dishonest - and even fraudulent - attempt to de-list criticism. It's "private" in the sense that you can't see it unless you look at one of her cartoons on her web site or published elsewhere by her. It's the signature that she displays to the world in all of the cartoons she publishes. Barstow's signature appears in my post about her - it's in her cartoon about Mexico, which I put in the post to comment upon it, criticize it, and report on ongoing allegations that some of her cartoons are racist or otherwise obnoxious. Her premise is that I published "private information" about her - to wit, her "handwritten signature." ![]() Barstow has used a Google tool asking Google to remove my post about her from Google's search results. ![]() Hidden_subject_signature: Your personal information removal request for aĪs far as I can tell, Ms. Should you have any questions, please don't hesitate to contact us. If it's changed to return a true 404 error via the http headers, please let us know and we'll also remove the listing from the Google index. We hope that you'll assist this individual in restricting access to this private information by removing the page from the web. We're writing from to bring the following page to your attention:Ĭartoonist Donna Barstow Engages In Modern Online Version of "Hey, Guys, Watch This!"Ī Whois search indicated that you're the host for this page.Ī concerned user contacted us to report that handwritten signature is published on this page. I think.Īnyway, this morning (that is, nearly 17 months after I wrote about her) I got an email from Google indicating that she had complained that my post contained private information: Apparently she actually meant that copyright violation is a federal crime. I also wrote about her odd follow-up rant in which she suggested that copyright is a federal crime. I wrote about her in July 2012, which resulted in a truly surreal phone call from her. Remember Donna Barstow? She's the cartoonist with a history of bogus legal threats who got into an ill-considered internet fight with the forum goons of Something Awful when they posted some her cartoons in a thread that criticizes awful cartooning. ![]()
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