I'm holding back on the kudos for NPR's editorial accountability until we get some context.
The subject of that story was a hedge fund guy who didn't like the search results appearing for his name and the legal expenses that went into trying to change them, the piece was sympathetic to him and it was framed as a story about 'net privacy and the lack of regulation around it, but of course it wasn't about privacy it was about censorship, two concepts that are too often conflated nowadays what with publications falling all over themselves trying to extol EU regulations.
The bottom line is that the so called "right to be forgotten" is as nonsensical an expression as it is a policy.
I'm holding back on the kudos for NPR's editorial accountability until we get some context.
The subject of that story was a hedge fund guy who didn't like the search results appearing for his name and the legal expenses that went into trying to change them, the piece was sympathetic to him and it was framed as a story about 'net privacy and the lack of regulation around it, but of course it wasn't about privacy it was about censorship, two concepts that are too often conflated nowadays what with publications falling all over themselves trying to extol EU regulations.
The bottom line is that the so called "right to be forgotten" is as nonsensical an expression as it is a policy.