Playing devil's advocate for Google, I think they're right not to remove defamatory material. There is no right to defame, per the maxim 'your right to swing y

Playing devil's advocate for Google, I think they're right not to remove defamatory material. There is no right to defame, per the maxim 'your right to swing your fist ends at the tip of my nose.' But there are valid cases for defamatory material to persist. The most obvious example is if you take someone to court for defamation, it's evidence and it's part of the public record. Our historical record is liable to be quite warped by all the material that's been forgotten. As long as we simply disappear defamatory or otherwise harmful speech, we don't really deal with it as a society. We really need to stop being so absurdly credulous. This guy had $100K to fix his problem. But many people don't have that, so they're vulnerable to being personally defamed.