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BBC Takes a Stand For the Public's Right To Remember Redacted Links

Posted by timothy on from the keep-the-microfiche-version-around-for-comparison dept.

Martin Spamer writes with word that the BBC is to publish a continually updated list of its articles removed from Google under the controversial 'right to be forgotten' notices." The BBC will begin - in the "next few weeks" - publishing the list of removed URLs it has been notified about by Google. [Editorial policy head David] Jordan said the BBC had so far been notified of 46 links to articles that had been removed. They included a link to a blog post by Economics Editor Robert Peston. The request was believed to have been made by a person who had left a comment underneath the article. An EU spokesman later said the removal was "not a good judgement" by Google.

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  1. Court's judgement, not Google's. by tlambert · · Score: 3, Informative

    Court's judgement, not Google's.

    Quit offloading the responsibility for your censorship onto a third party. KTHXBAI.

    1. Re:Court's judgement, not Google's. by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 3, Informative

      The court is specified in the first sentence in the link you pointed to. Apparently you didn't read it. It does work that way. A court's judgement said that Google had to remove links when requested if they met some nebulous definition of out of date, inaccurate, etc. The court also made it the search engine (not just Google's) call because they didn't want to deal with it. So yes, the court told the search engines to be the ones to decide. Google told them that that would be stupid and that it would cause mistakes.