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It would make a lot more sense if the right to be forgotten applied to regular sites first and foremost. A news article that unfairly damages someone's reputati
by jfoster 12y ago
It would make a lot more sense if the right to be forgotten applied to regular sites first and foremost. A news article that unfairly damages someone's reputation would eventually drop off Google if the original article were removed.
- happyscrappy 12y agoThe rest of the world still sees the actual search results as does anyone who goes to google.com. Your censorship idea would have to disconnect Europe from the rest of the internet to work.
- arcatek 12y agoThe point is that the search results would quickly disappear if the original pages were removed (since the search engine would remove them from its index too). It's not the case because it's easier to target the search engines rather than the N websites which have published a story.
- lotsofmangos 12y agoThis ruling is unlinking of factual data. It is industrialized bowdlerization of historical research tools. And your proposal would be industrialized bowdlerization of the actual texts.