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by Crito 4361 days ago
Getting nailed in civil court is a completely different animal than criminal charges. You can even get nailed in civil courts for things that criminal courts found you not guilty of (see: OJ Simpson).
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But that's what the discussion here is about as well. Google's "right to be forgotten" loss was also a civil case, not a criminal one.