Europe, your stupid "rights" are leaking into the rest of the freer world...

Google Fined by French Privacy Agency for Not Removing Links

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Google was fined 100,000 euros ($112,000) by France’s data-protection authority for failing to remove “right-to-be-forgotten” requests from global search results. The agency, CNIL, ordered Google to remove links after it got several complaints from people who wanted the search engine to delete search results that pointed to personal information about them. While Google removed links from its French ".fr" domain, it didn’t take them off the ".com" domain visible to European web users.

Hey, France, it's not Google's fault the .com domain is visible in your country. Perhaps, since you've started down the censorship path already, you should go whole hog and just filter the google.com domain from your ISPs.

Don't try to screw the rest of the world just because you've got a problem with freedom of speech and information. Keep your stupidity within your own country/economic consortium, please.

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