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The Right to Be Forgotten vs. Press Freedom Online

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In 2014, the Court of Justice of the European Union ruled that Google must remove links to personal information when a citizen requests it, even if the original article is lawful. This 'right to be forgotten' can force search engines to delete links to news articles, effectively making them harder to find and potentially erasing public records from common view.

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Imagine you could erase your embarrassing past from Google with a single request. Now imagine that past includes a crime you committed, and a journalist says the public still has a right to know. Who should win?