A man who spent $100K to remove a lie from Google

Re:A man who spent $100K to remove a lie from Google by hnuser1234 on Wednesday April 04, 2018 @04:03AM (#16752911)

How can you possibly blame this on developers and not the legal team and directors who agreed it's not worth putting significant effort into a fake result removal system?

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Re:A man who spent $100K to remove a lie from Google by Super_Jambo on Wednesday April 04, 2018 @04:15AM (#16752964)

I mean they have this system in Europe because it's legally mandated so they just can't be bothered to pay for the employees to run it in the US.

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Re:A man who spent $100K to remove a lie from Google by walshemj on Wednesday April 04, 2018 @07:30AM (#16753750)

But removal doesn't apply for newspaper websites even in Europe.

If Mr Irvine had tried to get the daily mail to remove an incorrect story he would have had as hard or harder time and all he would have got would be a 3 line retraction on page 35 in tiny print.

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Re:A man who spent $100K to remove a lie from Google by reaperducer on Wednesday April 04, 2018 @03:57PM (#16758403)

That's because you can't unring a bell.

A website can be revised.

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Re:A man who spent $100K to remove a lie from Google by appleflaxen on Wednesday April 04, 2018 @07:05AM (#16753626)

there is no blame in what s/he wrote.

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