France Still Thinks It Regulates Entire Internet, Fines Google For Not Making Right To Be Forgotten Global
Found on Techdirt on Saturday, 26 March 2016
Last summer, French regulators began to whine about Google's implementation of the right to be forgotten, saying that it should apply worldwide.
If Google had to moderate content globally based on the speech laws of a single country, we'd have the lowest common denominator of speech online, and a ton of ridiculous censorship.
Would France be comfortable if, say, China or Iran or North Korea suddenly decide that Google must also be censored to block out links to content they dislike, and that such content must be inaccessible in search results in France?
Of course not, because those are "evil" countries, unlike the "good" countries which only censor to "protect" citizens from the evil, evil content that is available online.