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The right to be forgotten is censorship. You may believe it's worthwhile censorship, but the fact remains that it's censorship. That's why we're negative about it: it's censorship. Please don't act surprised.

Plus it's pretty much technologically infeasible, and will produce a giant layer of disgusting hacks that don't even effectively protect the people they're supposed to. That might have something to do with why the tech community isn't happy.



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