Google seeks to limit ‘right to be forgotten’ by claiming it’s journalistic

Re:Google seeks to limit ‘right to be forgotten’ by claiming... by BookmarkSaver on Friday April 06, 2018 @07:49PM (#16778511)

But how is it ok or reasonable to say "you are allowed to see this, but we're going to make laws to make it arbitrarily hard to do".

Either it's removing public information (censorship), or it's this bizarre stop-gap to allow people to conceal information while pretending they aren't deleting it. There's not reasonable or principled system here. Just a dangerous stop-gap measure where it seems like people are trying to delete (censor) information under the guise of individual freedom ("we're just making it harder").

I don't really buy into the middle-ground presented by this measure.

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Re:Google seeks to limit ‘right to be forgotten’ by claiming... by lloyddobbler on Saturday April 07, 2018 @03:41PM (#16782428)

Agreed. Further along those lines, how does one reconcile the fact that Google still powers search for a number of other entities (including some libraries, academic institutions, etc)?

The "right to be forgotten", in that case, becomes the "right to erase history."

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