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Re:Google seeks to limit ‘right to be forgotten’ by claiming... by l9k on Friday April 06, 2018 @05:27PM (#16777605)
Most people didn't commit murder 20 years ago but may have had a car accident or organized a loud party with weed while in college.

People change and your neighbor now has a family and lives quietly. It seems unfair the world should know him about his past mistakes

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Re:Google seeks to limit ‘right to be forgotten’ by claiming... by dfox on Friday April 06, 2018 @06:38PM (#16778115)
The same notability argument is still valid. It is not that search engines are broken, but the society which would view something that happened 20 years ago, while being the most notable fact about given person, as relevant for anything else than conversation-starter is broken.
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