Google Wages Free-Speech Fight in Mexico

Free-speech advocates are challenging a ruling against Google Mexico that they say would allow politicians and business moguls to abuse the so-called right to be forgotten by wiping out Internet links that cast them in a negative light. The Google unit and local digital-rights activists are fighting in court to overturn a recent ruling by Mexico’s Federal Institute for the Access to Information, or IFAI. In late January, the institute came down on the side of a transportation scion who wants three links removed that contain negative comments about his family’s business dealings—including a government bailout of bad loans.