<story><title>Google seeks to limit ‘right to be forgotten’ by claiming it’s journalistic</title><url>https://www.cjr.org/innovations/google-journalistic-right-to-be-forgotten-by-claiming-its-journalistic.php</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>lightbyte</author><text>It sounds like the actual problem is&lt;p&gt;&amp;gt;This makes every person they might do business with to withdraw.&lt;p&gt;Hiding information from people sounds like a bandaid to the issue of people being overly judgemental.  Maybe we need to be more accepting to rehabilitation.</text></item><item><author>Heliosmaster</author><text>I see here a few comments criticizing the right to be forgotten, but I pose a question a bit differently.&lt;p&gt;Let us assume somebody commits a crime. He goes to jail, he pays for it, as society deems necessary.&lt;p&gt;A local newspaper reported it and now every time you google their name such an article pops up. This makes every person they might do business with to withdraw.&lt;p&gt;It seems to me the debt to society has been paid by going to jail, and yet they keep paying by having the news of their mistake be very prominent.&lt;p&gt;What is the right course of action, in this case?&lt;p&gt;Note that the difference between traditional newspapers is their general availability. Now the entire history is just a few clicks away, whereas with paper you need to go look for it specifically to find it, so it&amp;#x27;s a LOT less damaging.&lt;p&gt;What does HN think about this?</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>Cacti</author><text>Maybe instead of relying on humans to suddently act differently than they ever have in thousands of years, we could just remove the stupid link.&lt;p&gt;I mean, listen to yourself. Rather than an easy, technical solution, for a very limited and well defined problem, you&amp;#x27;re proposing we instead just wait until the billions upon billions of people on earth suddenly wise up, hit nirvana, sing Kum ba yah, and _be less judgemental_? So that, what, a giant, wealthy corporation isn&amp;#x27;t mildly bothered?</text></comment>
<story><title>Google seeks to limit ‘right to be forgotten’ by claiming it’s journalistic</title><url>https://www.cjr.org/innovations/google-journalistic-right-to-be-forgotten-by-claiming-its-journalistic.php</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>lightbyte</author><text>It sounds like the actual problem is&lt;p&gt;&amp;gt;This makes every person they might do business with to withdraw.&lt;p&gt;Hiding information from people sounds like a bandaid to the issue of people being overly judgemental.  Maybe we need to be more accepting to rehabilitation.</text></item><item><author>Heliosmaster</author><text>I see here a few comments criticizing the right to be forgotten, but I pose a question a bit differently.&lt;p&gt;Let us assume somebody commits a crime. He goes to jail, he pays for it, as society deems necessary.&lt;p&gt;A local newspaper reported it and now every time you google their name such an article pops up. This makes every person they might do business with to withdraw.&lt;p&gt;It seems to me the debt to society has been paid by going to jail, and yet they keep paying by having the news of their mistake be very prominent.&lt;p&gt;What is the right course of action, in this case?&lt;p&gt;Note that the difference between traditional newspapers is their general availability. Now the entire history is just a few clicks away, whereas with paper you need to go look for it specifically to find it, so it&amp;#x27;s a LOT less damaging.&lt;p&gt;What does HN think about this?</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>EpicEng</author><text>Good luck changing human nature. In the meantime, can I just get it off of google so I can get a job and pay my damn bills?&lt;p&gt;Your approach is of little comfort to the people this actually affects.</text></comment>