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That's lovely from the perspective of a historian 200 years in the future. But it does not nothing to alleviate the pain of people living in the present. People
by elric 5y ago
That's lovely from the perspective of a historian 200 years in the future. But it does not nothing to alleviate the pain of people living in the present. People whose prospective employers comb over their embarrassing past. Or bullies. Or any other number of evildoers whose life is made easier by unfettered access to indelible information.
- pwdisswordfish8 5y agoI don't like your proposed solution that uses right to be forgotten as a blunt instrument to paper over serious problems, to used a mixed metaphor. When you appeal to the right to be forgotten to fix problems like people and "prospective employers comb over their embarrassing past", it's a way of throwing up your hands and neglecting deeper issues. In a right-to-be-forgotten world, the way it would end up going is: 1. problematic potentates punish pitiable proles 2. someone invokes right to be forgotten 3. this is considered "good enough" 4. the problem conditions that allowed #1 to fester remain uncorrected I feel this way about a lot of stuff these days (especially the where the erosion of the tenets of a liberal society is involved), where people argue vociferously for a "solution" that can at best be considered an indirect way of handling the problem. You see this with a lot of contemporary calls for the dismantling of tradition of free speech/free inquire/freedom of association, for example. People end up chafing in the direction of proposals that have dual-use effects in the first instance and perniciously "null" effects in the second instance.