It is unrealistic to expect the kind of control over your public image that allows you to delete or rewrite the past to better suit the present. And it is dang

It is unrealistic to expect the kind of control over your public image that allows you to delete or rewrite the past to better suit the present. And it is dangerous to take this dangling carrot and then keep quiet about judicial abuses like the british super-injuction orders that protect the rich from having their affairs exposed to the public. It's much more sane to reject the "right to be forgotten" concept in its totality and start thinking seriously about the persistence of data in the digital age.