Marie Antoinette may not have been too far off the mark when she intoned the immortal line, “Let them eat cake.” When it comes to the right to be forgotten, it seems Europeans want both to have their cake and eat it. They are up in arms over Google’s having deleted links to various news stories from search results in Europe. Google last week deleted links to a blog post about former Merrill Lynch chairman Stan O’Neal, who was blamed for triggering the subprime loan mess in 2007, and to a disgraced Scottish soccer referee.
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Europeans Want Right to Be Forgotten - but Not for the Other Guy
Posted by: Richard Adhikari July 8, 2014 01:41 PMMarie Antoinette may not have been too far off the mark when she intoned the immortal line, “Let them eat cake.” When it comes to the right to be forgotten, it seems Europeans want both to have their cake and eat it. They are up in arms over Google’s having deleted links to various news stories from search results in Europe. Google last week deleted links to a blog post about former Merrill Lynch chairman Stan O’Neal, who was blamed for triggering the subprime loan mess in 2007, and to a disgraced Scottish soccer referee.