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Pianist Asks Washington Post To Remove Review Under "Right To Be Forgotten"
Goatbert writes with word that pianist Dejan Lazic, unhappy with the opinion of Post music critic Anne Midgette, "has asked the Washington Post to remove an old review from their site in perhaps the best example yet of why it is both a terrible ruling and concept."
It’s the first request The Post has received under the E.U. ruling. It’s also a truly fascinating, troubling demonstration of how the ruling could work. “To wish for such an article to be removed from the internet has absolutely nothing to do with censorship or with closing down our access to information,” Lazic explained in a follow-up e-mail to The Post. Instead, he argued, it has to do with control of one’s personal image — control of, as he puts it, “the truth.”
(Here is the 2010 review to which Lazic objects.)
It's nice that there's now an official mechanism for invoking the Streisand Effect.
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Then the artist should invite the Post reviewer to his next concert ...
The very first notes ... signalled that he can do anything he wants at the keyboard, detailing chords with a jeweler's precision, then laying little curls of notes atop a cushion of sound like diamonds nestled on velvet ...
Invite that reviewer?! Seriously, having read the review one is surprised it is not the reviewer attempting to assert her right to be forgotten.
Better to be despised for too anxious apprehensions, than ruined by too confident a security. --Edmund Burke
the date is right on the article.
If it was a date, he probably wouldn't be complaining.
I mean, you'd expect A Midgette to enjoy a small pianist more than most!