It's my understanding that the EU right to be forgotten legislation places the onus on the search engines to do the delinking. It's the search engines that have forms to submit requests to, not BBC, CNN and so on. It's the search that provides the visibility.

I've no idea if they considered barrier to entry or relative size when drafting the law or built in any limitations. Of course until an engine reaches some level of popularity it's unlikely to receive many or any removal requests, so should remain manageable for them. If it were the individual sites every site would need a policy and takedown request, just like most have now added something for DMCA requests. Doesn't that just put the barrier to entry up for everyone publishing a site?

I was asking you why. As a search engine developer, I'm very aware that the EU is trying to put me out of business before I start.

And yes, the DMCA is also a barrier to entry for search engines, but at least it's one that I understand well.

I think the EU is very aware that in the reality we live in, search engines are how people find stuff, not by looking through or searching directly on sites.

Thus, this is one of those times where the lawmakers actually looked at technology, and understood how it was used.

Also, making search engines responsible creates a far smaller surface area of contact than having every site that contains the content.

RTBF wasn't invented by lawmakers, it was invented by a European court.