To be clear, my original post was normative. As a policy, the law should favor name changes over a right to demand Google remove a search listing. > Furthermor

To be clear, my original post was normative. As a policy, the law should favor name changes over a right to demand Google remove a search listing. > Furthermore changing your name takes quite a bit of effort, asking a search engine to remove search results is a much simpler process. Simpler for you, but not for the search engine! Or for society as a whole. More to the point, it should not be easy to erase your name from the Internet. The right to be forgotten is easily abused, and it should be invoked as a last resort not the first.