Based on firsthand experiences of search interference and reverse SEO, this essay argues that Europe was right to confront Google. It exposes how profit-driven practices foster digital crime and undermine creators’ rights.

I believe that Europe was right to take a hard line against Google.
2016-08-25
On the 19th, there were two incidents from early morning.

From such an early hour, I thought, this man is plotting something, calculating how to reduce my search numbers.

Google, too, is a company that promotes nonsense such as SEO measures and, for the sake of its own profits, encourages the evil that spreads across the internet.

It continues to foster and leave unchecked various crimes committed by criminals who exploit truly malicious reverse SEO tactics.

I believe that Europe was right to take a hard line against Google.

Compared with the person who invented the www. and released it free of charge for the benefit of humanity, or Ken Sakamura, who invented TRON without ever thinking of making even a single yen, it is no exaggeration to call Google a mere profit-seeking company, incapable of comparison.

After returning home from Kyoto, I tried to log in to Goo, but I could not. Thinking “not again,” I searched for “The Turntable of Civilization.” Just as in the first incident this month, where Ameba, Amazon, and Goo had appeared, Goo had now been completely erased.

When I felt it was a waste to merely store tens of thousands of photographs—taken mainly in Kyoto—on my PC, I learned of PIXTA and applied. After a long screening process, about half of the twenty submissions passed and were published. As PIXTA recommended, I announced this on my blog.

Immediately, the criminal mentioned above pasted, under photographs of Akutagawa Kenji, a blog that had carried out obstruction of business and defamation against Akutagawa Kenji on Twitter under his real name, which he had kept hidden somewhere.

The lawyer mentioned above was not from the PC generation, hated the internet, and said that for cybercrime matters I should consult a younger lawyer. I consulted the bar association, was introduced to a younger lawyer, and filed a criminal complaint with the Osaka Prefectural Police.

At the same time, on this occasion only, I changed the name Akutagawa Kenji.

When I called this lawyer, there was a response in the evening.

“…Regarding not being able to log in to the site, do you know any system engineers? Please have someone like that investigate the cause.” “I don’t know anyone…”

I called one person who came to mind, but there was no response, apparently due to a company drinking party. I then called another person, a close friend of thirty years and a company president with whom I am very close.

“This man is essentially someone who went around doing door-to-door sales…”

He said this after reading the criminal history posted online. We were so angry that we even avoided reading the details, and thus had not read them closely.

“Door-to-door sales of solar power systems, and so on…” “Ah, he said things like that when he frequently came to our office.”

The next morning, first thing, there was a response. “There is only one SE in the company who can handle this, so it may be difficult today…”

I explained the situation I was facing and ended the call. Shortly afterward, there was another call saying he could come at three o’clock.

“This is terrible. It’s a situation I’ve never seen in an ordinary household.”

I recalled the criminal acts of this man that began the moment I decided, in my hospital room, to publish “The Turntable of Civilization” and announced it on my blog. Searches for both “The Turntable of Civilization” and “Akutagawa Kenji” were filled from page one through page ten with intolerable texts and content constituting obstruction of business and defamation.

The publisher, Kinokuniya Umeda Main Store, and I were all certain that a certain number of copies would definitely sell. Naturally, however, my first work, by an unknown author, suffered a fatal blow from the persistent and malicious behavior possessed only by those who carry the genetic traits of countries defined by “bottomless evil” and “plausible lies.”

Anyone can see that in such a place—an environment where such criminals are allowed to live unchallenged—my “Turntable of Civilization” is not something that ought to be written.

This time only, I have laid down my pen, going against the words of Kūkai.

Omitted.