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Right to be forgotten gives the individual the right to have his data removed from permanent storage by companies, for whatever purpose: not sure how it relates

Right to be forgotten gives the individual the right to have his data removed from permanent storage by companies, for whatever purpose: not sure how it relates even remotely with censorship. " filtering of information related to things unsavory to the past of any given country in the EU." Some specific reference to some EU government forcing companies to remove controversial information about their countries' past would help making your point (not saying it doesn't happen).

dpatru 7y ago
> Right to be forgotten gives the individual the right to have his data removed from permanent storage by companies, for whatever purpose: not sure how it relates even remotely with censorship. Books are also permanent storage, often stored centrally in public libraries. Does an individual have the right to have information about him removed from books in libraries? Wouldn't that be a kind of censorship? The only difference is that so called "right to be forgotten" applies to Google's electronic storage rather than your local library's books. Just like you don't have a right to remove pages about you from your local public library's copy of your high school yearbook, so you shouldn't have the right to remove information about yourself from Google's indexes. Both are censorship.
- anticensor 7y ago
  No, right to be forgotten is not excercised via criminal courts. You have to reach the author of the book and make it collect all the copies.
chillacy 7y ago
This argument feels like the classic “is killing in wartime murder”. It’s semantic at heart.
reaperducer 7y ago
It's my understanding that Nazi stuff is prohibited in various ways in Germany and France. I watched a movie recently (though not a recent movie) that had a scene with some Nazi stuff in the background of one scene. The IMDB trivia notes for the film stated that the scene was removed when it was released in Germany. (If I can remember the film, I'll edit this comment.)

dpatru 7y ago

> Right to be forgotten gives the individual the right to have his data removed from permanent storage by companies, for whatever purpose: not sure how it relates even remotely with censorship. Books are also permanent storage, often stored centrally in public libraries. Does an individual have the right to have information about him removed from books in libraries? Wouldn't that be a kind of censorship? The only difference is that so called "right to be forgotten" applies to Google's electronic storage rather than your local library's books. Just like you don't have a right to remove pages about you from your local public library's copy of your high school yearbook, so you shouldn't have the right to remove information about yourself from Google's indexes. Both are censorship.

anticensor 7y ago
No, right to be forgotten is not excercised via criminal courts. You have to reach the author of the book and make it collect all the copies.

chillacy 7y ago

This argument feels like the classic “is killing in wartime murder”. It’s semantic at heart.

reaperducer 7y ago

It's my understanding that Nazi stuff is prohibited in various ways in Germany and France. I watched a movie recently (though not a recent movie) that had a scene with some Nazi stuff in the background of one scene. The IMDB trivia notes for the film stated that the scene was removed when it was released in Germany. (If I can remember the film, I'll edit this comment.)