Editorial: Publication bans have a place, even with Google

A teenage girl is raped. Her male attacker faces numerous charges for his brutal act. Under Canadian law, the identity of the youthful victim can’t be revealed, either during court proceedings or later – indeed, if it could, the traumatized young woman might never have come forward to police in the first place.
Broadly, our society expects that her privacy will be respected; reflecting this, the law shelters her from both the immediate anguish of public scrutiny and future publi