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Now Google Must Censor Search Results About "Right To Be Forgotten" Removals
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.
...this summary is itself in violation.
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?
Good people go to bed earlier.
As a citizen of the EU I will say that I'm so so sorry about this mess. We if anyone should know better.
as a citizen of the EU I demand that I have the right to have Slashdot forgotten, so goog should eliminate it from its search results. also, let's forget goodle too.
Legislate them out of existence. It's always fun to watch a slow motion shakedown by a government play out.
This is ridiculous. If the content is still out there, then Google, and all other search engines should index it. I can see asking them to not cache it, but to use stro,g-arm tactics to FORCE them to actively filter it out of results is, to my mind, a violation of their freedom of speech. Which SHOULD trump the freedom to F up and then hide it from the public.
Google and MS and all the other search engines should just threaten to pull out of the EU en mass rather than abide by this rediculous law.
Who's willing to join me on a Right-to-be-forgotten campaign about the f***ing Kardashians?
General Relativity: Space-time tells matter where to go; Matter tells space-time what shape to be.
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?
"99 dead duelists of Dios on the wall. 99 dead duelists of Dios! Take one's ring, pass it around..."
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
Trusting software vendors is no smarter than trus
You know I STILL don't know who they are. .
Irrelevant, they are irrelevant
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.
Do not look into laser with remaining eye.
“If the Party could thrust its hand into the past and say of this or that event, it never happened—that, surely, was more terrifying than mere torture and death.”
Looks like George Orwell was spot on.
Then again Oldthinkers unbellyfeel EU right?
The shepherds did so well protecting the flock that the sheep no longer believed that wolves existed.
I was modding in this story, but, after seeing the above, felt compelled to post and say this: You do realize that you can make exactly the same argument in support of the surveillance state, right? Be careful what you wish for.
What part of "shall not be infringed" is so hard to understand?
Kim Kardashian is famous because she has a giant ass, which some guys apparently find attractive.
I don't find her ass attractive in the least, I think it's gross and misshapen.
Just cruising through this digital world at 33 1/3 rpm...
Actually, she's famous because some second-rate (yet oddly enough, squeaky clean) celebrity has a brother (who is even more of an off-brand celebrity) who performed various 'acts' with Kim Kardashian on tape. And then *somehow* that tape got leaked to the world.
So really she's about the most successful crossover porn star. =/
he has a better track record than most of us.
He was born into hundreds and hundreds of millions of dollars, no duh.
in baseball 30% success is damn good.
The red sox are winning 45% of the time and they are in LAST PLACE
Why do you hold someone to such a higher degree than you would hold yourself to?
WELL DUH. They are running for president and I AM NOT.
I've heard it stated that they're mostly famous for being famous. They serve mostly as something for CNN to talk about when they're not talking about the Malaysia Airlines flight.