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Re:BBC to publish 'right to be forgotten' removals list by mineshaftgap on Friday October 17, 2014 @01:38PM (#8472198)
> You just won't be able to rely on a search engine to gather all that information for you

Sure you will, as long as you don't use Europe's neutered version of reality.

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Re:BBC to publish 'right to be forgotten' removals list by anigbrowl on Friday October 17, 2014 @01:46PM (#8472275)
An iteration on the European court's decision might require operators to amend their robots.txt files. It's not hard to conceive of multiple approaches to the same end. In any case, your objection is not responsive to my point that free speech remains uninfringed.
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Re:BBC to publish 'right to be forgotten' removals list by mineshaftgap on Friday October 17, 2014 @02:04PM (#8472406)
Free speech remains uninfringed as long as Europeans can still reach US search results.
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Re:BBC to publish 'right to be forgotten' removals list by anigbrowl on Friday October 17, 2014 @02:19PM (#8472499)
Free speech remains uninfringed even if all search results are the same.
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Re:BBC to publish 'right to be forgotten' removals list by mineshaftgap on Friday October 17, 2014 @02:32PM (#8472593)
So it is still free speech even if no one is allowed to hear it?
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Re:BBC to publish 'right to be forgotten' removals list by anigbrowl on Friday October 17, 2014 @03:02PM (#8472774)
As I said earlier, I'm not sure algorithmically generated search results rise to the level of political speech as they're not expressive of an opinion.

You are still allowed to find and read the original article under this EU law. You are just not entitled to have it pre-emptively collected and indexed for you if the subject of the article has a colorable wish to preserve their privacy.

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Re:BBC to publish 'right to be forgotten' removals list by mineshaftgap on Friday October 17, 2014 @03:34PM (#8472900)
Sounds like a good use of EU resources.
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