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Re:How Google determined our right to be forgotten by matt4077 on Wednesday February 18, 2015 @11:22AM (#9069286)
The online community's infatuation with the 'Streisand Effect' is somewhat thoughtless. The mechanism annihilates the power of the law, by making any attempt to get justice subject to the approval of the online mob.

Sure, it's a feel-good story when some celebrity suffering from affluentia is the subject. But why shouldn't Mr. Gonzalez have the right to try to clear his name? Is trust in the court system so low that we're happy when they are replaced by collective judgement by people who decide based on whatever small slice of the truth they saw on Twitter?

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Re:How Google determined our right to be forgotten by prof_hobart on Wednesday February 25, 2015 @05:36AM (#9106144)
When you say "clear his name", that suggests the story about him wasn't true. In which case, the site should be asked to remove the article as it would be libellous.

My understanding of it though is that it's entirely true. It just happened a reasonably long time ago. I'm not sure why it's Google's job to censor queries about true stories on the grounds that they happened a few years ago.

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