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[ NNSquad ] Guardian: "The right to be forgotten will turn the internet into a work of fiction"
Guardian: "The right to be forgotten will turn the internet into a work of fiction"
(Guardian): http://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2014/jul/06/right-to-be-forgotten-internet-work-of-fiction-david-mitchell-eu-google
"People's right to suppress unpleasant lies which are publicly told is
being extended to unpleasant truths -- until they die when it's
suddenly open season on slander. The internet will become constructed
entirely of two different sorts of untruth: contemporaneous unalloyed
praise and posthumous defamatory hearsay.
No one has the right to be forgotten, any more than they have the
right to be remembered. Our only right in this regard should be not to
be lied about. And then maybe we can try to see the unflattering facts
of other people's pasts in the light of our own imperfections. I
wouldn't think less of someone because his house was repossessed 16
years ago. But I would if he turned out to be a liar."
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--Lauren--
Lauren Weinstein (lauren@vortex.com): 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
I am a consultant to Google -- I speak only for myself, not for them.
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