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The baffling thing about this argument is that the EU apparently doesn't think that this information is so terrible that it can't be published--just that we have to suppress links to it. And since the ruling only concerns older material, it's built into its logic that these articles are things which the public once deserved to know but now must forget. So your talk of sleazy reporters has no place here.


There is an excellent post below by user gaius addressing this issue.

You seem to believe that search engines are not force multipliers for for-profit gossip mongering; this is demonstrably false.




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