More "Right To Be Forgotten" nonsense from "The Guardian"
"How Google determined our right to be forgotten" (Guardian): http://www.theguardian.com/technology/2015/feb/18/the-right-be-forgotten-google-search - - - Reliably nonsensical tripe from The Guardian. I've spent so much time and so many words ripping apart the disastrous concept that is the "Right To Be Forgotten" (RTBF) that I won't bend your ears (or rather, eyes) on it again here, except to note what is likely the most critical element -- EU desires to expand their regional bureaucratic censorship nightmare regime from regional versions of Google to google.com globally. And it takes no more than a modicum of intelligence to see the problem with such demands. For if the EU can do this (and keep in mind we're likely on the cusp of vast new demands for Internet censorship from politically pandering European and other leaders promising to control the Net to ostensibly "stop terrorists") -- then what's to stop Putin, or Kim Jong-un, or the leaders who imprison citizens for decades for the "crime" of blasphemy or speaking negatively about their leaders -- from making exactly the same kinds of demands for global censorship? There is no "gentle" path in this realm. All routes leading from the EU RTBF lead to kicking free speech off the cliff, to the delight and enrichment of the leaders who view information control as their permanent meal ticket to political control. --Lauren-- Lauren Weinstein ([email protected]): http://www.vortex.com/lauren Founder: - Network Neutrality Squad: http://www.nnsquad.org - PRIVACY Forum: http://www.vortex.com/privacy-info Co-Founder: People For Internet Responsibility: http://www.pfir.org/pfir-info Member: ACM Committee on Computers and Public Policy Lauren's Blog: http://lauren.vortex.com Google+: http://google.com/+LaurenWeinstein Twitter: http://twitter.com/laurenweinstein Tel: +1 (818) 225-2800 / Skype: vortex.com _______________________________________________ pfir mailing list http://lists.pfir.org/mailman/listinfo/pfir
