{"id":127566,"date":"2015-08-21T07:44:52","date_gmt":"2015-08-21T13:44:52","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2015\/08\/21\/try-to-fine-tune-the-magic-search-fairy.html"},"modified":"2015-08-21T15:00:11","modified_gmt":"2015-08-21T21:00:11","slug":"try-to-fine-tune-the-magic-search-fairy","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2015\/08\/21\/try-to-fine-tune-the-magic-search-fairy.html","title":{"rendered":"Try to fine-tune the magic search fairy"},"content":{"rendered":"

Apparently it's not enough, under the EU's "Right to Be Forgotten" directive that Google has to remove\/block search links to information about an individual that is deemed no longer "accurate" or "relevant" (an overturned conviction meaning that Fred Smith can ask to have "Fred Smith ate live kittens" stories rendered invisible) — now a UK has ruled that Google has to also remove\/block search links to material that talks about<\/i> such redactions by the person's name ("Fred Smith successfully appealed to have Google remove links referring to his eating live kittens in 2001"). Though, graciously, it has granted that the stories themselves may be of "relevant" interest; they just are not to be found by searching for the name ("Fred Smith").<\/p>\n

This kind of search censorship and further micromanagement to censor the censorship will not end well, one way or another.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

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\nNow Google must censor search results about Right to Be Forgotten removals<\/a><\/span>
\nThe Right to Be Forgotten has proved somewhat controversial. While some see the requirement for Google to remove search results that link to pages that contain information about people that is\n<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

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Apparently it's not enough, under the EU's "Right to Be Forgotten" directive that Google has to remove\/block search links to information about an individual that is deemed no longer "accurate" or "relevant" (an overturned conviction meaning that Fred Smith can ask to have "Fred Smith ate live kittens" stories rendered invisible) — now a UK … Continue reading “Try to fine-tune the magic search fairy”<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_seopress_titles_title":"","_seopress_titles_desc":"","_seopress_robots_index":"","_seopress_robots_follow":"","_seopress_robots_imageindex":"","_seopress_robots_snippet":"","_seopress_robots_primary_cat":"","_seopress_robots_breadcrumbs":"","_seopress_robots_freeze_modified_date":"","_seopress_robots_custom_modified_date":"","_seopress_robots_canonical":"","_seopress_social_fb_title":"","_seopress_social_fb_desc":"","_seopress_social_fb_img":"","_seopress_social_fb_img_attachment_id":0,"_seopress_social_fb_img_width":0,"_seopress_social_fb_img_height":0,"_seopress_social_twitter_title":"","_seopress_social_twitter_desc":"","_seopress_social_twitter_img":"","_seopress_social_twitter_img_attachment_id":0,"_seopress_social_twitter_img_width":0,"_seopress_social_twitter_img_height":0,"_seopress_redirections_value":"","_seopress_redirections_enabled":"","_seopress_redirections_enabled_regex":"","_seopress_redirections_logged_status":"","_seopress_redirections_param":"","_seopress_redirections_type":0,"_seopress_analysis_target_kw":"","_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[106,3,133,132],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-127566","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-plusposts","category-blogging","category-censorship","category-privacy"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":43861,"url":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2014\/07\/26\/dear-canada-i-dont-live-in-you-either.html","url_meta":{"origin":127566,"position":0},"title":"Dear Canada: I don't live in you, either","author":"***Dave","date":"Sat 26-Jul-14 9:54am","format":false,"excerpt":"So keep your hands off of what I can search for.I mean, honestly, think for a moment. 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