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Please stick to the topic of the thread. Thank you.
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Apologies...you are very correct. I was having too much fun and veered off a cliff.
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From the Post article in Felix's OP:
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Leaving aside the fact that Lazic’s request is misdirected, under the ruling — it applies to search engines, not publishers, and only within the E.U. — its implications are kind of terrifying. We ought to live in a world, Lazic argues, where everyone — not only artists and performers but also politicians and public officials — should be able to edit the record according to their personal opinions and tastes. (“Politicians are people just like you and me,” he explains.) This is all in pursuit of some higher, objective truth.
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This sounds too much like a "memory hole," in my opinion. I doubt the intent of the EU law is to allow an individual to "Photoshop" public details of his/her life. In the U.S., there is a profound difference in the amount of privacy an ordinary citizen can expect and a person in the public eye can expect. Arguably, the pianist is more in the latter group than the former. Although U.S. and EU law diverge in many areas, EU law doesn't hold sway over a newspaper in the U.S. As others have mentioned, the Streisand Effect will give Lazic exactly what he doesn't want...additional attention to the review he wants expunged.