I don't care if it's pictures of Tiananmen Square in 1989 or news accounts of some guy being mentioned in a real estate imbroglio on 1998, leaving it up to government bodies (even "good guys") to control the Memory Hole is never a good idea, and their insisting on controlling that information worldwide is just wrong.
The ultimate risk here is that the EU says, "Okay, Google, you no longer have the right to crawl any sites that are within our jurisdiction; we'll roll out our own search engine." Or "fine, we're going to block, as a continent, access to all Google search sites (and, probably, everything else." Which just balkanizes (if I can use a European reference) the Internet, which is great news for busy-bodies who think they know what information you should and should not access, but bad news for everyone else.
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EU regulators to Google: “Right to forget” needs to go worldwide
Regulators are hammering out the fine art of being forgotten—at home and abroad.
Agreed.
Dear US.
I don’t live there. I am pissed off with your constant telling the other 95% of us how to live our lives.
So why don’t you do us a favour, and Fuck Off.
See, it works both ways.
We have laws, and beliefs, and a view on the world. But because of the fact you are all rabid rightwingers, who believe unaccountable big business should be allowed to do what they want, we all have to suffer the constant trampling of our lives by greedy psychopaths.