BBC to publish 'right to be forgotten' removals list

Re:BBC to publish 'right to be forgotten' removals list by stretchwithme on Friday October 17, 2014 @01:08PM (#8472005)

Then why isn't the government going on to BBC servers and removing those articles? Don't they violate somebody's privacy?

Is there even a right to keep private something everybody knows? A right to have milk on the floor be in the glass it spilled out of?

Free speech wasn't an absolute right in Soviet Russia either. And, yes, they too had ways of avoiding naming what they were actually doing.

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Re:BBC to publish 'right to be forgotten' removals list by untog on Friday October 17, 2014 @01:44PM (#8472261)

Is there an equivalent of Godwin's Law for invoking Soviet Russia when discussing free speech?

The answer to your question is that the EU law is written horribly, by people who have no real idea how the internet works.

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Re:BBC to publish 'right to be forgotten' removals list by xtrumanx on Friday October 17, 2014 @02:04PM (#8472409)

I hope not. I already find it annoying enough when people decide to shut down a conversation by bringing up Godwin's Law.

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