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# "Right To Censor" Watch
- URL: https://onemanandhisblog.com/2014/07/google-right-forgotten-censorship-journalism/
- Published: 2014-07-03T12:31:25.000Z
- Updated: 2017-07-04T09:52:17.000Z
- Author: Adam Tinworth
- Tags: censorship, right to be forgotten, search engines

[![Three monkeys](https://i2.wp.com/www.onemanandhisblog.com/content/images/2014/07/548769325_fa45ca523a_o-thumb-2800xauto-3791.jpg?resize=960%2C213)](https://i0.wp.com/www.onemanandhisblog.com/content/images/2014/07/548769325%5Ffa45ca523a%5Fo.jpg?ref=onemanandhisblog.com)

Well, it’s looking like the judgement that gives people the [“right to be forgotten”](http://curia.europa.eu/jcms/upload/docs/application/pdf/2014-05/cp140070en.pdf?ref=onemanandhisblog.com) is rapidly becoming the “right to censor”. In the last 24 hours I’ve seen these:

A [blog post from Robert Peston](http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/business-28130581?ref=onemanandhisblog.com) has been “forgotten”:

> Now in my blog, only one individual is named. He is Stan O’Neal, the former boss of the investment bank Merrill Lynch.
> 
> My column describes how O’Neal was forced out of Merrill after the investment bank suffered colossal losses on reckless investments it had made.
> 
> Is the data in it “inadequate, irrelevant or no longer relevant”?

## The ref calls for silence

A whole chunk of *Guardian*[stories have been effectively removed from Google’s index](http://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2014/jul/02/eu-right-to-be-forgotten-guardian-google?ref=onemanandhisblog.com), for the purposes of direct searching:

> The first six articles down the memory hole – there will likely be many more as the rich and powerful look to scrub up their online images, doubtless with the help of a new wave of “reputation management” firms – are a strange bunch.
> 
> Three of the articles, dating from 2010, relate to a now-retired Scottish Premier League referee, Dougie McDonald, who was found to have lied about his reasons for granting a penalty in a Celtic v Dundee United match, the backlash to which prompted his resignation.

The stories are still live on *The Guardian* site – they just can’t be easily found through the obvious Google searches.

Anyone seen any others yet?

*Image by [Tim Samoff](https://www.flickr.com/photos/timsamoff/548769325/?ref=onemanandhisblog.com), and used under a Creative Commons licence*