The "right to be forgotten" is antithetical to free speech and free press. The news, even when it reflects on someone unfavorably, is a matter of public record.

The "right to be forgotten" is antithetical to free speech and free press. The news, even when it reflects on someone unfavorably, is a matter of public record. Just because it's about you does not make it "your" data or confer some sort of moral right to decide what happens to it. The public has a right not to have information disappear out from under it. 1984 opens on a guy who shoves inconvenient public records down the memory hole. What the EU is trying to do is no different. It can and should be resisted to the greatest extent possible at every turn.