What's going through the EU's mind right now? "This is clearly futile, not working and doesn't stand a chance in hell of working......so let's do more!"?
I mean, seriously, what will they be doing next? Asking all proxies, VPNs, and TOR to filter "right to be forgotten" search results. All airlines and airports offering international flights will require memory wipers to remove any "right to be forgotten knowledge" from your brain. All libraries, archives, repositories and public records offices will be re
Can't tell (not telepathic), but I'm in support of this right and I can tell you what I think: The Internet is full of half-truths and outright lies. Search engines do not deliver results based on the truth value of sites, but on popularity, page ranking and such. If, 10 years ago, you were arrested for child porn, with headlines in the newspapers. Three months later, charges were dropped, everyone apologized profoundly to you for the mistake, the government paid a ton of money for your troubles and the pro
This law is total nonsense even if you agree with the concept of being forgotten, because the law doesn't even go after the content!
If you have issues with content on the web, you should be going after the host of the content, not search engines who just arbitrarily index.
The ONLY reason this law is targeting major international search engines is because the EU knows that if the law targets the actual content owners, then the law would never be enforceable. By targeting major international search engines, they can enforce it (IE, they are being lazy).
This law is essentially useless because isn't actually causing ANYTHING to "be forgotten", the content is still out there, and non-international search engines like DuckDuckGo and many others will continue to return that content.
So essentially it is a useless law, that accomplishes nothing except forcing Google, Bing, and Yahoo to waste resources.
If you have issues with content on the web, you should be going after the host of the content, not search engines who just arbitrarily index.
And within the EU you can do that, too.
The "right to be forgotten" rule protects against circumvention of that law by hosting the material outside of the EU's jurisdiction and relying on search engines to make it readily accessible to people within the EU anyway. Given that if we're talking about a victim in the EU, the damage caused by someone reading misleading or inaccurate information is most likely to arise if the reader is also in the EU, this is actually quite a pragmatic solution to a real problem.
By targeting major international search engines, they can enforce it (IE, they are being lazy).
No, they're doing what they should be doing. Instead of putting their head into the sand and singing "nothing we can do about it, la la la la la", they are doing what they can do about it.
It's not perfect, but outside of the ivory towers of the computer departments of universities, that's how the real world works. We have a law against murder as well, even though it doesn't actually prevent murder. But it's better than nothing, it's what we can do about the issue, and it works reasonably well.
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This is clearly futile... (Score:5, Insightful)
I mean, seriously, what will they be doing next? Asking all proxies, VPNs, and TOR to filter "right to be forgotten" search results. All airlines and airports offering international flights will require memory wipers to remove any "right to be forgotten knowledge" from your brain. All libraries, archives, repositories and public records offices will be re
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What's going through the EU's mind right now?
Can't tell (not telepathic), but I'm in support of this right and I can tell you what I think: The Internet is full of half-truths and outright lies. Search engines do not deliver results based on the truth value of sites, but on popularity, page ranking and such. If, 10 years ago, you were arrested for child porn, with headlines in the newspapers. Three months later, charges were dropped, everyone apologized profoundly to you for the mistake, the government paid a ton of money for your troubles and the pro
You are in support of what??? (Score:2)
This law is total nonsense even if you agree with the concept of being forgotten, because the law doesn't even go after the content!
If you have issues with content on the web, you should be going after the host of the content, not search engines who just arbitrarily index.
The ONLY reason this law is targeting major international search engines is because the EU knows that if the law targets the actual content owners, then the law would never be enforceable. By targeting major international search engines, they can enforce it (IE, they are being lazy).
This law is essentially useless because isn't actually causing ANYTHING to "be forgotten", the content is still out there, and non-international search engines like DuckDuckGo and many others will continue to return that content.
So essentially it is a useless law, that accomplishes nothing except forcing Google, Bing, and Yahoo to waste resources.
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If you have issues with content on the web, you should be going after the host of the content, not search engines who just arbitrarily index.
And within the EU you can do that, too.
The "right to be forgotten" rule protects against circumvention of that law by hosting the material outside of the EU's jurisdiction and relying on search engines to make it readily accessible to people within the EU anyway. Given that if we're talking about a victim in the EU, the damage caused by someone reading misleading or inaccurate information is most likely to arise if the reader is also in the EU, this is actually quite a pragmatic solution to a real problem.
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By targeting major international search engines, they can enforce it (IE, they are being lazy).
No, they're doing what they should be doing. Instead of putting their head into the sand and singing "nothing we can do about it, la la la la la", they are doing what they can do about it.
It's not perfect, but outside of the ivory towers of the computer departments of universities, that's how the real world works. We have a law against murder as well, even though it doesn't actually prevent murder. But it's better than nothing, it's what we can do about the issue, and it works reasonably well.
Most of the re