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First of all, it should be common sense that no one has the right to force legitimate news articles to disappear because they don't like the content I think a

First of all, it should be common sense that no one has the right to force legitimate news articles to disappear because they don't like the content I think a lot of EU people (I'm not one) would disagree with you here. The notions of privacy and of the goals of the criminal-justice system in several parts of Europe are radically different from the notions your "common sense" position is based on, which means that what seems "common sense" to them seems ludicrous to you, and vice-versa.

closeparen 9y ago
It may surprise some HN readers that 1984 was in fact not about a lack of pricacy, but about the government's ability to edit the past. Privacy had a minor role next to the ability to redefine the truth. This is a deeply scary thing. I hope the gleefully self-righteous dystopia builders in this thread get to suffer the full pain of the "right to edit other people's memories" world they are building.