All web searches for the country's most famous son: football player Diego Maradona were blocked by Yahoo! Argentina after a judge's temporary restraining order.

The world knows Maradona for his sleight of hand in the 1986 World Cup quarter final between England and Argentina, and presently he manages the Argentine national football team. However, if someone searches his name into Yahoo!'s Argentina-based search engine, he would get only the news results.

"An academic partnership intent on exposing net filtering across the globe - Argentine judges have issued more than 100 search sites restraining orders over the past two years in an attempt to expunge allegedly inappropriate references to some of the country's most recognizable names," as discussed by the OpenNet Initiative (ONI). This ongoing net censorship crusade came to a head in September, when Yahoo!, Google, and other search engines were ordered to remove vast swaths of content involving Maradona and high-profile judge María Servini de Cubría.

All Maradona links were not bared by the order. Yahoo! explained that the language was so broad that blocking content on a site-by-site basis wasn't an option.

Yahoo! said through a statement, "Yahoo! was founded on the principle that access to information can fundamentally improve people's lives and we are actively defending these lawsuits in the spirit of that vision."

However, quite a lot number of Maradona results are being returned by Google.

Alberto Arebalos, Google's director of Latin American global communications and public affairs said, "If a judge comes to us and says that particular pages must be blocked, we will block them. But there is no reason to block all references to Maradona."