Agreed that the argument shouldn't be dismissed just because of who's advocating. There was a great discussion about this at the Twitter privacy chat a few yea

Agreed that the argument shouldn't be dismissed just because of who's advocating. There was a great discussion about this at the Twitter privacy chat a few years ago, and quite a few others so things the same way. That said the "right to be forgotten" argument makes sense to a lot of people in Europe. Characterizing this as wrong or misguided which doesn't come across as very respectful. During the privacy chat, I wound up saying something like "Wait a second, doesn't Spain's law count?" Most Americans on the chat basically said no, it shouldn't count, because that's not how we look at the world. Google comes across as similarly disdainful of other cultures.