Following a judge's temporary restraining order, Yahoo! Argentina has blocked all web searches for the country's most famous son: footballer Diego Maradona.

Maradona is known the world over for his, shall we say, sleight of hand in the 1986 World Cup which knocked England out of the quarter finals. And he now manages the Argentines. But if you key his name into Yahoo!'s Argentina-based search engine, you get nothing but news results.

The order did not bar all Maradona links. But according to Yahoo!, the language was so broad that blocking content on a site-by-site basis wasn't an option.

This litigation undermines the immense value of the internet as a worldwide vehicle for sharing information. These lawsuits exploit the law to limit freedom of expression and ultimately harm the many ordinary Internet users in Argentina who turn to search engines like Yahoo! to find information."