There are obviously counter cases where people have committed crimes many years ago, but a trivial search for their name brings the crimes up as the first resul

There are obviously counter cases where people have committed crimes many years ago, but a trivial search for their name brings the crimes up as the first result. This obviously makes it hard for them to move on. It’s an impossible line to draw concretely, but there is a distinction between branding someone for life over what may have been a one time mistake and keeping an accurate and accessible record of the news. The examples you used as examples are obviously pretty horrible and won’t draw sympathy, but there are obviously other crimes.