Reflecting on the Right to be Forgotten

Re:Reflecting on the Right to be Forgotten by lern_too_spel on Saturday December 10, 2016 @01:25AM (#13144370)

The newspaper who wrote an article about the Frenchman has a right to display that article to people outside of France and has a right to have search engines index the article to drive traffic to its website.

The Internet user outside of France has a right to read something critical of the Frenchman to decide whether to do business with him on that basis and has a right to find that information using a search engine.

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Re:Reflecting on the Right to be Forgotten by ptaipale on Saturday December 10, 2016 @10:22AM (#13146010)

Right. And what happens when an Internet user in France opens a VPN connection that has an endpoint outside of France, and accesses information that the French government doesn't wish him to see?

You can prosecute the Internet user, of course. That's what happens in China, for instance.

You can try to detect VPNs and make it a crime to even try to create such a VPN. That's also what happens in authoritarian countries.

But is that the right way for France or other EU countries to go? No.

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