France Rejects Google’s Right-To-Be-Forgotten Appeal

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Google is now facing hefty fines in France if it refuses to comply with a court order after losing an appeal in that ongoing right-to-be-forgotten case.

CNIL said in a statement: “Contrary to what Google has stated, this decision does not show any willingness on the part of the CNIL to apply French law extraterritorially. It simply requests full observance of European legislation by non European players offering their services in Europe.” The rejection of the appeal means that Google now must comply with the order and remove the tens of thousands of delistings from its google.com and other non-European domains for named searches.
 
The censorship creates controversy over what was censored which, in turn, leads to demand for further censorship. It's a vicious cycle without end.

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I'm 100% for Internet censorship...there's just too much junk online. People shouldn't be allowed to express non-mainstream political views, condone or advocate the use or legalization of narcotics, share photos of anyone wearing less than at least a tshirt and shorts, or talk bad about each other. Google is not only a data mining monster that monetizes people to exploit them for profit, its offered nothing useful ever to society, and deserves to be forcibly dissolved by the world's governments.
 
CreepyUncleGoogle said:
I'm 100% for Internet censorship...there's just too much junk online. People shouldn't be allowed to express non-mainstream political views, condone or advocate the use or legalization of narcotics, share photos of anyone wearing less than at least a tshirt and shorts, or talk bad about each other. Google is not only a data mining monster that monetizes people to exploit them for profit, its offered nothing useful ever to society, and deserves to be forcibly dissolved by the world's governments.
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uhh wut?
 
sfsuphysics said:
I think Google should forget about everything France.
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I was about to make a similar remark. Cut France off from Google and all their services they provide or are involved in. When France complains, "I'm sorry, but we forgot about you."
 
So Google is supposed to censor world-wide content because someone in France might see it? No way do I see them complying. The slippery slope suddenly became a cliff.
 
The whole right to be forgotten thing is insane.

It's not that I don't agree with the premise, that it isn't fair that unwanted negative information about a person sticks around for decades online. That part of it I agree with.

It's the part where it is the SEARCH ENGINE's responsibility to do something about it rather than the site that is hosting the offending content in the first place that is the insane part.

It's almost literally shooting the messenger.

It's like blaming the phone company for listing a phone number in the phone book.

That's and it is just wrong from the perspective of how the technology works as well.

Now Google and other search operators have to maintain massive "exception tables" that increase server load and slow down searches.

This type of privacy legislation makes perfect sense, but it should be targeted at whomever is hosting the information, NOT at the index that tells you where it is...
 
CreepyUncleGoogle said:
I'm 100% for Internet censorship...there's just too much junk online. People shouldn't be allowed to express non-mainstream political views, condone or advocate the use or legalization of narcotics, share photos of anyone wearing less than at least a tshirt and shorts, or talk bad about each other. Google is not only a data mining monster that monetizes people to exploit them for profit, its offered nothing useful ever to society, and deserves to be forcibly dissolved by the world's governments.
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You should start by self censoring.
 
France doesn't understand how the internet works. Once it gets on the internet it's never forgotten.
 
what if say someone somewhere ordered Google to remove all links to France (say Russia or China), and anything French? How would the French Govt feel I wonder
 
Google can probably convince a small country (like one of the poorer african states, they can probably do it on the cheap / less than the cost to fight it out in France) to pass a right to remember law just to prove to the French that their position is way out of scope. Only REAL first world countries like the US can make those kinds of unilateral judgements... ;)
 
Remove the links from google.fr and call it a day. If France wants the links removed universally outside of France, then that would be an attempt to apply the law extraterritorially. If the government of France gets to decide what I can find on the internet in the US, how would that be different than Saudi Arabia deciding what I can find on the internet?
 
CreepyUncleGoogle said:
I'm 100% for Internet censorship...there's just too much junk online. People shouldn't be allowed to express non-mainstream political views, condone or advocate the use or legalization of narcotics, share photos of anyone wearing less than at least a tshirt and shorts, or talk bad about each other. Google is not only a data mining monster that monetizes people to exploit them for profit, its offered nothing useful ever to society, and deserves to be forcibly dissolved by the world's governments.
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I'm disappointed in you, This one wasn't even a good effort.:(
 
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