EU Google ruling

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The European Courts of Justice ruled on Tuesday that an individual could demand that "irrelevant or outdated" information be deleted from results.

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I think it points to the inconsistency of how the internet works.

Information is not owned anymore by those that provide it.

And the users accept this arrangement for the "free" service of using server portals ( Google, Facebook etc).

These server portals in turn make money using this information that flows through there server portal.

It may be indirectly through advertising to those users accessing these portals or analytics of the information and/or users.

The point is if you make money from the information you need to take responsibility for it.

Alternatively the information should remain the property of those that provided it and the profits generated from it should be shared out in proportion to the traffic the specific information generates. This way Google etc is no longer responsible for content, but they also now need to share the profits.

You cannot have it both ways and I think this is the beginning of the end of these siren servers.

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