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Using the Internet to Erase History, Not Good!
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[quote:Judethz:MV8yNTg1OTA4XzQ1MDc3MzI1XzE3RTg5RDk0] :blinker::rose: Actually to a degree I'm in favour of it. One thing that particularly pisses me off is the million or more mug shots of everyone who has ever been arrested in the USA. People convicted of serious crimes is one thing. But someone arrested for being drunk. Or even worse someone arrested for no good reason and never even charged. Why should they have their lives blighted. Or the kid who posted some dumb photo. Or the person who got slandered by someone in an argument. They should all be able to have stuff taken down. [/quote]
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The day Google opened its online submission process to comply with the European “right to be forgotten” ruling, the company received 12,000 requests – one every seven seconds – from users demanding that information be pulled from search results.
The cost of ignoring those requests, or getting them “wrong” in the eyes of the EU courts? Google could face fines of a billion dollars per incident. In the European Union, the process of whitewashing history is underway.
With the ruling, the court is forcing Google to perform the impossible balancing act between the newly invented “right” be forgotten and the Internet’s unique power to preserve, contextualize, and disseminate information.
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