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Japanese Court Demands 'Right To Be Forgotten' For Sex Offender (thestack.com)
An anonymous reader writes: A Tokyo court has ordered that Google remove any results linked to the arrest of a sex offender, after a judge ruled that he deserves to rebuild his life 'unhindered' by online records of his criminal history. Citing the right to be forgotten, the Saitma district court demanded the removal of all personal information online related to the conviction. Judge Hisaki Kobayashi argued that, dependent on the nature of the crime, an individual should be able to go through a fair rehabilitation process, which would include a clean sheet on their online records after a certain amount of time has passed. In this case, the unnamed man had requested that information from more than three years ago, related to his child prostitution and pornography crimes, be removed from Google's results.
I WAS molested as a kid, and the registered sex offender list is meaningless. I'd rather have had my attacker stay in prison until he's rehabilitated, not put on the same list two teenagers that sexted are on.
The whole idea is ludicrous. On top of all that, the moment a sex offender moves intuitive the area, property values tank. There's no good result from it, since most sexual attacks come from someone the kid knows anyway (in my case it was my piano teacher).
It's just far too nebulous to take seriously. I suppose a repeat offender might need to be tracked, but unless you know how to look up penal codes all sex offenders look like cold molesters, and that's just not true.