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May 15, 2014

The Net: European Union Court sides with privacy-based "right to be forgotten" and riles everyone else.

On Tuesday, the highest court in Europe ruled that, in many cases, an EU citizen can ask a search engine to remove unwanted content on the Internet, and the search engine must comply. See, e.g., today's International Business Times. The world's reaction in the simplest terms: Privacy advocates love it, regarding it as a strike for the protection of private citizen data. Free expressionists hate it, correctly regarding the ruling as conferring a government right to censor.

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Posted by JD Hull at May 15, 2014 12:31 AM

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