[ PRIVACY Forum ] More "Right To Be Forgotten" nonsense from "The Guardian"

More "Right To Be Forgotten" nonsense from "The Guardian"

"How Google determined our right to be forgotten"

(Guardian): http://www.theguardian.com/technology/2015/feb/18/the-rig...

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Reliably nonsensical tripe from The Guardian. I've spent so much time
and so many words ripping apart the disastrous concept that is the
"Right To Be Forgotten" (RTBF) that I won't bend your ears (or rather,
eyes) on it again here, except to note what is likely the most
critical element -- EU desires to expand their regional bureaucratic
censorship nightmare regime from regional versions of Google to
google.com globally. And it takes no more than a modicum of
intelligence to see the problem with such demands. For if the EU can
do this (and keep in mind we're likely on the cusp of vast new demands
for Internet censorship from politically pandering European and other
leaders promising to control the Net to ostensibly "stop terrorists") --
then what's to stop Putin, or Kim Jong-un, or the leaders who
imprison citizens for decades for the "crime" of blasphemy or speaking
negatively about their leaders -- from making exactly the same kinds
of demands for global censorship? There is no "gentle" path in this
realm. All routes leading from the EU RTBF lead to kicking free speech
off the cliff, to the delight and enrichment of the leaders who view
information control as their permanent meal ticket to political
control.

--Lauren--
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