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How's that? How is asking google to remove me from their indices forcing other people to forget? Where exactly is the "force"?

• wyager 10y ago
  > How is asking google to remove me from their indices forcing other people to forget? "Asking" is very different from "legally compelling". If we buy the use of the "forgetting" terminology, it is quite clear how forcing google to expunge someone from all records is "forcing other people to forget". This isn't a complicated analogy, so I'm not sure what you're confused about. > Where exactly is the "force"? EU Law. Is that not manifestly obvious?
  • dkarapetyan 10y ago
    Your analogy is flawed. Being removed from a google index because of a court order != being wiped from peoples' memories by force. As far as I know the technology for wiping memory doesn't exist yet and unless you are equating the google index with some kind of exo-cortex and even then the analogy is quite a stretch.
    • wyager 10y ago
      Obviously the "people" in this case are the proprietors of news websites, web indexers, etc. If we look at the intent of the law (causing someone to be erased from public view), we could also argue that the public is being forced to forget in a moderately less concrete sense. I use the "memory wipe" analogy because the people advocating for censorship are using the euphemistically passive "forgetting" analogy. Not my choice, I'm just keeping it consistent.