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In my mind, this only makes the law itself all the more evidently absurd.
by nicklaf 11y ago
In my mind, this only makes the law itself all the more evidently absurd.
- kuschku 11y agoWell, the law has one thing in mind: You should be able to stumble upon knowledge, or if you know where to look, but a future employer, or a neighbor, etc should not be able to find out about crimes you did when you were a teen.
- bmelton 11y agoPerhaps the real fix is in not publishing the details of teenagers who commit crimes?
- plorkyeran 11y agoI think that's absolutely the correct solution, but it doesn't help all of the people who already had information about their actions as teenagers published.
- tracker1 11y agoIf it were illegal, you could then file takedowns from the publishers, and it wouldn't show up in google anymore... Google should not be an enforcement arm for internet censorship... the end.
- kuschku 11y agoWell, it is forbidden in Germany, but some newspapers will still do it, and then just eat the fine. BILD is very infamous for this.
- thrownaway2424 11y agoMaybe the solution is for teenagers to not commit crimes?
- kodablah 11y agoUsing a popular search engine that abides by EU laws is not the only way to find out about things. Killing the messenger does nothing to the message.
- happyscrappy 11y agoYou can tell this to Europeans until you are blue in the face but they will not listen. They think they can impose their censorship on the world.
- x0x0 11y agoYeah, totes weird how Europeans expect companies operating inside Europe to obey European law.
- happyscrappy 11y agoIt does no good if you can just use google.com and that will never be censored but pretend is good enough for them.
- x0x0 11y agoit's perfectly reasonable for eu companies to say any google service accessed from within eu borders shall be so regulated If google doesn't like it, they are free to stop doing business inside the eu.
- MichaelGG 11y agoIt's not very reasonable to attempt to enforce geo boundaries on the Internet. It's a silly, backwards, approach. It might be something governments are doing, but that's only to be expected of them, always looking to increase influence and control.
- happyscrappy 11y agoIf Europe is foolish enough to try then Google will dump them, just like China.
- jaredklewis 11y agoI'm sympathetic to the goal and the individuals affected, and while the law provides some small benefit to these individuals, I think that benefit must be weighed against the (to my mind) large cost to society at large. The law places a very large burden on search engines (and who knows, perhaps other platforms in the future) that now must evaluate and remove/deny all requests or risk expensive litigation. I think most companies will err or the side of safety and remove most requests, making censorship easy.
- zmonkeyz 11y agoEspecially when one John Smith can speak for the rest.