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Using the Internet to Erase History, Not Good!
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[quote:Heavenly Alchemy:MV8yNTg1OTA4XzQ1MDc4MDYwXzU5Q0IwMjEw] Not to get sidelined from the important piece, which is that information is being kept away from you. Not super secret information either. Just regular everyday things that YOU might want to know. But you know what? Because another doesn't like one eyed one horned flying purple people eaters, or what ever floats your boat...you can't find the best information on your widget, and if you have a page on it, others can't find your page. Not good. [/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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