It does do that.

No it doesn't. Newsworthy information is an explicit exception listed in Article 17, and so is free speech.

Who decides newsworthy? Their subscriber list is newsworthy if they deem it so.

First, the company decides whether the request needs to be complied with or not, and if the user doesn't like that decision, they can complain to the regulators who may choose whether the refusal is worth looking into.

Regulators.

No. Here's the full text of the right to erasure. Pay attention to all the reasons given for why processors can ignore the request to erase data.

https://gdpr-info.eu/art-17-gdpr/

But then look at para 3.

> Paragraphs 1 and 2 shall not apply to the extent that processing is necessary:

> for exercising the right of freedom of expression and information;

Then I'm going to store all the information I want, for the purpose of expressing it to others. Oh wait, I can't do that? Somehow the EU has a different definition of "freedom of expression" in mind than what the words actually mean.