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Re:Google to France: We Won't Forget It for You Wholesale by seanflyon on Monday August 03, 2015 @05:08PM (#9999827)
> it's not related to censorsphip at all.

Censorship: the practice of officially examining books, movies, etc., and suppressing unacceptable parts.

Isn't the suppression of "unacceptable" information the stated goal of the right to be forgotten?

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Re:Google to France: We Won't Forget It for You Wholesale by bduerst on Monday August 03, 2015 @05:21PM (#9999924)
It's like something you would read out of Catch-22.

News organizations can still publish articles about someone who invoked the RTBF, but nobody will read it because it's impossible to find.

In the bureaucratically definitive sense it's technically not censorship, it's just using a characteristic of the internet to make it censorship. At least, that's the writing on the wall.

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