In May, the EU Court of Justice ruled that because people have the "right to be forgotten," Google must remove links from European versions of search, just because people ask them to. But you can't hide from the past on the internet.
The requirement that Google take down links for the right to be forgotten is just lame censorship. Overtly! It's the removal of inconvenient facts from published public view because somebody wants the facts to disappear. It's a bit like the producers of Friday Night Lights calling on the Ministry of Truth to have Season 2 erased from the record because it's inferior to the rest of the series.
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