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Re:Times Articles Removed from Google Results in Europe by Luc on Saturday October 04, 2014 @05:49PM (#8410771)
> Since May, when the European high court made its initial decision on the right to be forgotten, Google has received roughly 140,000 privacy requests connected to more than 500,000 links, according to the company’s top lawyer. So far, the search giant has approved around half of the requests.

One in 70,000 is a rather low Streisand concentration...

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Re:Times Articles Removed from Google Results in Europe by rbehrends on Saturday October 04, 2014 @08:23PM (#8411037)
Yes. The Streisand effect doesn't really scale.
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Re:Times Articles Removed from Google Results in Europe by lotsofmangos on Saturday October 04, 2014 @09:31PM (#8411164)
If you confined the search to newspapers, you could construct a live list of article availability vs territory for all the major search engines. I'm actually quite surprised that there isn't one already.
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Re:Times Articles Removed from Google Results in Europe by rbehrends on Saturday October 04, 2014 @10:40PM (#8411294)
You could, but the inherent limitation of the Streisand effect is that both media and public attention are finite resources.

You can focus media/public attention on at best a few individuals and have it be effective. Have tens of thousands, and the effect is too diluted to be meaningful.

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