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A comment on Insights on the First Three Years of the Right to Be Forgotten at Google. Parent comment

Re:Insights on the First Three Years of the Right to Be Forg... by cortesoft on Tuesday February 27, 2018 @12:00PM (#16475368)
This makes sense, but you also have to think of the other side; there are a lot of people who have been victims of sexual misconduct but there was not enough evidence to convict the perpetrator. Don't those people have the right to REMEMBER what happened to them, and tell people about what happened to them if they want to?
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Re:Insights on the First Three Years of the Right to Be Forg... by Vinnl on Tuesday February 27, 2018 @12:14PM (#16475509)
Totally, and I'm in favour of people figuring out what the facts are by themselves over Google doing that on their behalf. My call was more for those people to keep my comment in mind when they're doing so.
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Re:Insights on the First Three Years of the Right to Be Forg... by cortesoft on Tuesday February 27, 2018 @12:53PM (#16475968)
Right, but if I write a blog post about my experience with someone, don't I have a right to have that blog post indexed by google if I want?

In our modern world, 'people figuring out what the facts are by themselves' means searching via google. How else are people supposed to figure out facts for themselves?

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Re:Insights on the First Three Years of the Right to Be Forg... by Vinnl on Wednesday February 28, 2018 @04:16AM (#16481759)
Yes, that's what I'm saying - I agree. It's just that when people read those blogs, they should not equate that to "proven to have happened", which is what the person above appeared to be doing.
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