EU Demands Google Forget "The Right To Be Forgotten"
http://lauren.vortex.com/archive/001120.html
Brussels, Belgium (ZAP) - The European Union today issued a preliminary
order requiring that Google and all other Search Engines and similar
services remove all search results related to the EU "Right To Be
Forgotten" (RTBF).
"We've been deliberating on this issue for a very long time," noted
Winston Charrington, Minister of the European Union World Censorship
Directorate. "We've come to the conclusion that only by mandating the
complete and total global elimination of all references to RTBF can we
avoid unnecessary consternation and controversies regarding those
aspects of published history -- that RTBF requires be deleted from
search indexes around the planet. In other words, if you don't even
realize that censorship is occurring, how could you ever be upset
about it? Doubleplusgood!"
Leaders and politicians from around the world were quick to praise the
EU's action. Russian president Vladimir Putin issued a statement noting
the EU was acting in the best historical traditions of Mother Russia.
Chinese leaders offered to provide the EU with "Great Firewall"
censorship technology at no charge, "in the furtherance of helping our
brothers and sisters in Europe join our information control people's
paradise."
GOP presidential candidate Donald Trump immediately called FOX News to
say that the EU's actions are a crude start but adding that, "When I'm
president you're going to have a really wonderful censorship system here
in the USA. It's going to make those Russian and European systems look
like stupid, ugly women. You're going to forget there ever were mass
arrests and deportations here. I know how to do censorship. You're going
to love the Trump censorship system!"
An EU spokesperson noted that upon finalization of this global RTBF
censorship order, all search and other references to articles, stories,
or other materials describing this order, including this posting, would
be retroactively deleted.
Google was unavailable for comment.
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--Lauren--
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