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Re:Canadians have a ‘right to be forgotten’ on Google, Feder... by supertron on Saturday September 30, 2023 @09:51AM (#37715426)
You seem to be assuming that just because someone wants to be "forgotten" they've done something wrong.

There is a vast number of situations where someone might want to be forgotten because someone else has done / is doing something wrong towards them.

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Re:Canadians have a ‘right to be forgotten’ on Google, Feder... by epakai on Saturday September 30, 2023 @10:32AM (#37715800)
Then they should be made whole by that perpetrator. If that action can just be memory holed for a victim's sake then you have motivated the perpetrator to lean on them so their wrongdoing can be forgotten.
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Re:Canadians have a ‘right to be forgotten’ on Google, Feder... by mikecoles on Saturday September 30, 2023 @06:22PM (#37720490)
Your classification of situations by 'vast number' is wrong. Most erasures are to hide guilt.
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