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I'd like some clarification to the opening line: Turning Point: The top E.U. court orders Google to grant the “right to be forgotten.'’ Is he decrying that dev
by dumadoo 12y ago
I'd like some clarification to the opening line: Turning Point: The top E.U. court orders Google to grant the “right to be forgotten.'’
Is he decrying that development as indicative of Orwellian reality or praising it as a positive development? (my understating is he meant the former)
- john_b 12y agoI believe it is the former, as one of the core ideas of 1984 (arguably the core idea) is that when a tyrannical power has control over language, they have control over history, and when they have control over history they have control over the present and future.
- calimac 12y agoTrue
- gwern 12y agoDecrying. In, IIRC, his discussion/interview with Schmidt, he discusses takedowns of Guardian and other newspaper articles as how scandals of powerful figures can go 'down the memory hole'. I believe the right-to-be-forgotten is already being used that way, to cover up frauds and whatnot.