"Unlike in the United States, where freedom of expression is a fundamental right, Europe views an individuals’ privacy and freedom of expression as almost equal rights."
Privacy was once a fundamental right in this country, but not anymore.
"Search-erase requests pouring into Google" Associated Press October 11, 2014
SAN FRANCISCO — Google is being swamped with demands from Europeans trying to erase humiliating links to their past from the world’s dominant Internet search engine.
Nearly 145,000 requests have been made in the European Union and four other countries by people looking to polish their online reputations, according to numbers the company released Friday.
I'm opposed to the removal of anything.
That’s an average of more than 1,000 requests a day since late May, when Google began accepting submissions to comply with a European court that ruled some embarrassing information about people’s lives can be scrubbed from search results.
Hey, ma$$ media and propaganda pre$$ do it. This blog has proved it.
Europe’s insistence that its citizens have the ‘‘right to be forgotten’’ in certain instances has thrust Google into an uncomfortable position. The company has been trying to define what kind of material merits deletion while also striving to stand by its belief that all of the world’s information should be accessible.
The removal requests covered more than 497,000 Web links. Among all websites, Facebook’s social network has had the most links erased, followed by Google’s own YouTube video site.
Not by me!
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Also see: "The decision stunned Google and just about everyone else. Google said it would need time to study the decision, which is a final judgment and cannot be appealed."
Fraud, sex, post-it art: Google cuts search links
It's the ‘‘equivalent of burning books.’’
Some managed to get saved before the burnings began again. Google has since let go of some things while holding on to others.
Time for me to let this post go.
