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Spanish Company Tests 'Right To Be Forgotten' Against Google
suraj.sun writes with an excerpt from an article over at Ars Technica: "Los Alfaques, a bucolic campground near the Spanish town of Tarragona, isn't happy with Google. That's because searches for 'camping Alfaques' bring up horrific images of charred human flesh — not good for business when you're trying to sell people on the idea of relaxation. The campground believes it has the right to demand that Google stop showing 'negative' links, even though the links aren't mistakes at all. Are such lawsuits an aberration, or the future of Europe's Internet experience in the wake of its new 'right to be forgotten' proposals? Legal scholars like Jeffrey Rosen remain skeptical that such a right won't lead to all sorts of problems for free expression. But in Spain, the debate continues. Last week, Los Alfaques lost its case — but only because it needed to sue (U.S.-based) Google directly. Mario Gianni, the owner of Los Alfaques, is currently deciding whether such a suit is worth pursuing."
I'll bet Santorum wishes Google would forget him.
"First they came for the slanderers and i said nothing."
Sure, that worked when they renamed Camp Crystal Lake to Forest Green
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Brian: Yeah, about your pamphlet, I'm not seeing anything about German history between 1939 and 1945. There's just a big gap...
German tour guide: Everyone was on vacation! On your left is Munich's first city hall, erected in 15...
Brian: What are you talking about? Germany invaded Poland in 1939 and...
Tour guide: We were invited! Punch was served! Check with Poland!
Brian: You can't just ignore those years. Thomas Mann fled to American because of Nazism's stranglehold on Germany.
Tour guide: No, no, he left to manage a Dairy Queen.
Brian: A Dairy Queen? That's preposterous.
Tour guide: I will hear no more insinuations about the German people! Nothing bad happened! Sie werden sich hinsetzen! Sie werden ruhig sein! Sie werden nicht beleidigen Deutschland!
"The Greens lynched a hacker in Chicago. Last month, but I think the body's still hanging from the old Water Tower."
Something about instability?
If only we could tell which was most important to people. But wait! We could check by seeing the most useful information via the amount of links. Although we might want to add other metrics like social network mentions and such. We could make some kind of ranking system...to rank pages...if only there was some word for this.
"To any truly impartial person, it would be obvious that I am right."