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Now Google Must Censor Search Results About "Right To Be Forgotten" Removals

Posted by timothy on from the turtles-and-elephants-all-the-way-down dept.

Mark Wilson writes, drolly, that the so-called right to be forgotten "has proved somewhat controversial," and expands on that with a new twist in a post at Beta News: While some see the requirement for Google to remove search results that link to pages that contain information about people that is 'inadequate, irrelevant or no longer relevant' as a win for privacy, other see it as a form of censorship. To fight back, there have been a number of sites that have started to list the stories Google is forced to stop linking to. In the latest twist, Google has now been ordered to remove links to contemporary news reports about the stories that were previously removed from search results. All clear? Thought not... The Information Commissioner's Office has ordered Google to remove from search results links to nine stories about other search result links removed under the Right to Be Forgotten rules.

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  1. oh boy here we go. by nimbius · · Score: 5, Funny

    6 years from now I fully expect a slashdot article highlighting googles mandatory censorship of the censorship of the right to have the right to forget about forgetting the forgotten.

    does a set of all sets include itself?

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    1. Re:oh boy here we go. by msauve · · Score: 5, Funny

      What about Google's right to forget to censor search results?

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    2. Re:oh boy here we go. by FranTaylor · · Score: 4, Funny

      What about Google's right to forget to censor search results?

      we forgot about it

  2. Re:forget it! by FranTaylor · · Score: 1, Funny

    as a citizen of the EU

    What is the EU? Why do they matter? Why is there a big hole in the planet north of africa?

  3. Re:Could have its uses by Rei · · Score: 4, Funny

    For the longest time I seriously just assumed it had something to do with Star Trek - until the increasingly strange-sounding headlines I randomly stumbled across threw that assumption out the door.

    I could google it, but rather than doing that (as that'd be too easy), I'm going to guess: Aren't they those type of people who are famous just for being famous?

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  4. Doofenshmirtz must be an EU regulator. by IMarvinTPA · · Score: 3, Funny

    I see that since the "Delete From My Mind-Inator" was destroyed, he is still trying to get this https://www.youtube.com/watch?... video forgotten.

    I wonder how well this will work out? Do you think he calls this the "Right to Forget-inator"?

    IMarv

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  5. Monty Python meets 1984 by TWX · · Score: 5, Funny

    We apologise for the fault in the censored search results. Those responsible have been sacked.

    We apologise again for the fault in the censored search results. Those responsible for sacking the people who have just been sacked have been sacked.

    The directors of the firm hired to continue the censored search results after the other people had been sacked, wish it to be known that they have just been sacked. The censored search results have been completed in an entirely different style at great expense and at the last minute.

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