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Re:Google loses ‘right to be forgotten’ case by onion2k on Friday April 13, 2018 @11:25AM (#16830852)
It seems to me that there is an absolute right to access factual historical information.

This isn't a comment about the case, or the right to be forgotten, but something quite important nonetheless - Google's search results are not "factual historical information". They're an index of webpages that anyone and everyone can create, saying whatever they like. Google claims their engine ranks pages that more reputable higher than others, but without any transparency around that we can't know whether or not we agree with it's decisions.

Re:Google loses ‘right to be forgotten’ case by zeveb on Friday April 13, 2018 @04:10PM (#16833505)
> Google's search results are not "factual historical information". They're an index of webpages that anyone and everyone can create, saying whatever they like.

I'd argue that the fact that a webpage says something is itself an historical fact, and shouldn't be forbidden to be said.