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Re:GDPR After One Year by ivan_gammel on Saturday May 25, 2019 @12:49PM (#20009990)
The right to be forgotten is the equivalent of the right to no punishment without the law. The deeds must be interpreted and judged by a court, not by a public, basing their opinion on newspaper publications. When someone is denied a job because there were some news about him in Google from many years ago, it's a form of extrajudicial punishment, which is illegal, and must be prevented.
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Re:GDPR After One Year by seventhtiger on Sunday May 26, 2019 @03:45AM (#20013635)
It's far too powerful. It makes sense when you think of publishers and articles about criminal cases.

It becomes much harder in social media. If I type your name in a comment that I own, the platform becomes obligated to destroy my intellectual property to satisfy your right to be forgotten.

If a book is written with a politician's name in the title, can the politician ban this book from the Internet?

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Re:GDPR After One Year by afiori on Sunday May 26, 2019 @04:12PM (#20017177)
> If a book is written with a politician's name in the title,

The politician would need to argue that his/her own name is problematic.

> If I type your name in a comment that I own,

If you write a long comment about how I am a terrible person because of action I took 10 years ago and are no longer relevant, yes. As far as I understand the right does not apply to you human to be forgotten, but to specific information about you that are no longer relevant.

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Re:GDPR After One Year by seventhtiger on Sunday May 26, 2019 @05:08PM (#20017517)
You are giving a government body the power of total Internet censorship and trusting in their opaque process to determine whether each request is warranted or not.

I can understand many arguments for censorship for the greater good. This is censorship as an individual right enabled by a closed review process.

I believe it will have far reaching implications and it will be fertile grounds for corruption. A massively powerful governance tool is created and all its stated goals are of limited public good.

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