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Re:America should borrow from Europe’s data-privacy law by Sylos on Sunday April 08, 2018 @12:48PM (#16786954)
> The trouble with the right to be forgotten in censorship. The concept is nice, but in the end, the right to be forgotten can mean corrupt powerful people can censor their misdeeds.

That would actually most likely not go through. As a powerful person, you're likely considered a person of public interest, at which point your right to be forgotten is forfeited, because it conflicts with free speech. (A judge will decide whether that's actually the case or not.)

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