Re:Google seeks to limit ‘right to be forgotten’ by claiming...
by voidr on Saturday April 07, 2018 @04:10AM
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> Should we give Trump the right for his bankruptcies to be forgotten?
Those records are all available in a publicly accessible registry maintained by the goverment.
> Do we give child molesters the right for their crimes to be forgotten?
You have the sexual offender registry for those things.
> Why should people have the right to have things they don't like wiped from the historical record?
No, it's about people's mind not being immutable. I used to believe in Santa ~25 years ago, if I would have made a viral tweet about it back then, should I be barred from joining a scientific community today?
Even Eric Schmidt said that young people should get a reset button once they become of age.
My rule of thumb is that: the authorities and law enforcement should have monopoly over maintaining information that should stick with you forever, not some private company that is even more unaccountable than the government.
Those records are all available in a publicly accessible registry maintained by the goverment.
> Do we give child molesters the right for their crimes to be forgotten?
You have the sexual offender registry for those things.
> Why should people have the right to have things they don't like wiped from the historical record?
No, it's about people's mind not being immutable. I used to believe in Santa ~25 years ago, if I would have made a viral tweet about it back then, should I be barred from joining a scientific community today?
Even Eric Schmidt said that young people should get a reset button once they become of age.
My rule of thumb is that: the authorities and law enforcement should have monopoly over maintaining information that should stick with you forever, not some private company that is even more unaccountable than the government.