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A Princess Is Making Google Forget Her Drunken Rant About Killing Muslims

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I support this right. It is a fundamental human right. With cameraphones everywhere the space around us is becoming polluted -- panopticonic -- in many senses.

Pair this with a cultural climate who's standards are changing so quickly -- anyone can be taken out of context.

Everyone get's angry when "an elite" does something ... well they are still human. My hope is that they make this process easier so that every human being can enjoy the freedom of not having their life documented and observed at every moment.

It’s only a right if it applies to everyone. Also, there should be certain classes of things that one can’t erase that way. Should a convicted pedophile have the right to scrub the internet of references to their crime? What about a murderer? The idea is a lot easier to swallow if it’s only related to things the person said.

>Also, there should be certain classes of things that one can’t erase that way. Should a convicted pedophile have the right to scrub the internet of references to their crime? What about a murderer?

No, but doing that would compel law enforcement agencies to expunge all public records and the news media to erase all relevant content related to a criminal matter. No one is suggesting the right to be forgotten is or should be that extreme. As mentioned in the article, there already are certain classes of things that one can't erase away, notwithstanding the fact that removing something from Google is not equivalent to removing it from the internet.

It's not really down to Google, it's down to the European 'right to be forgotten' law.

The BBC once posted a list of their articles which had been delisted on google:

https://www.bbc.co.uk/blogs/internet/entries/1d765aa8-600b-4...

A Guardian article about the BBC list:

https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2015/jul/01/bbc-wrong...

Seems to me it's a boon for corrupt politicians and career criminals, on that basis I do not support the law.

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