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Google is an indexer, therefore it searches for information on the internet that correlates or is @tonyjstark. If you ask your government for a 'Rights to be Fo

Google is an indexer, therefore it searches for information on the internet that correlates or is @tonyjstark. If you ask your government for a 'Rights to be Forgotten', they will request for everyone in their jurisdiction to remove you from it. Google EU and others then have to remove the indexed information associated with you. However, Google US, Bing Colombia, etc are not in your jurisdiction, so it can still index the information associated with you. Also, if the website that is being indexed is not within EU jurisdiction or has been copied elsewhere, then it also falls outside of EU jurisdiction. If legislation like these ones could encompass the whole world, certain powerful countries, corporations, individuals, etc would use it to ensure that only what was beneficial to them would be indexed, searchable and available.

nocturnial 7y ago
> If you ask your government for a 'Rights to be Forgotten', they will request for everyone in their jurisdiction to remove you from it. That's not how this works. You ask the entity in question to remove your data. You only ask your "government" to enforce that right if everything else fails. You're already assuming bad faith from the entity. Some requests are actually reasonable and when you talk to a human they will do it if you have a good reason.
- hartator 7y ago
  The thing is the 1st amendment will be in direct contradiction of the right to be forgotten. I feel protecting freedom of speech is more important.
  - Tomte 7y ago
    That's right. But while the 1st amendment is very popular in America, across the parties, many people outside of America think it's bonkers. I happen to be one of them. And I also think that freedom of speech must be protected.
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