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European Commission Spokesman: Google Removing Link Was "not a Good Judgement"

Posted by samzenpus on from the we've-always-been-at-war-with-Eastasia dept.

An anonymous reader writes in with this article from the BBC about Google's recent removal of a news story from search results. "Google's decision to remove a BBC article from some of its search results was "not a good judgement", a European Commission spokesman has said. A link to an article by Robert Peston was taken down under the European court's "right to be forgotten" ruling. But Ryan Heath, spokesman for the European Commission's vice-president, said he could not see a "reasonable public interest" for the action. He said the ruling should not allow people to "Photoshop their lives". The BBC understands that Google is sifting through more than 250,000 web links people wanted removed."

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  1. Justin Deed by smittyoneeach · · Score: 3, Funny

    Justin Deed was a Streisand fan,
    Doo dah, doo dah,
    Saw her Effect and had a plan,
    Oh da doo dah day,
    Scrapin' screens all day
    Scrapin' screens all night
    Tried purge the whole Internet
    'Cause he won't too bright.

    --
    Get thee glass eyes, and, like a scurvy politician, seem to see things thou dost not.--King Lear