Comment by immibis
7 months ago
However, on today's Internet we do have the expectation that everything we post will be sucked up by algorithms and used against us in the future. That's why the EU has a "right to be forgotten" - which HN flagrantly violates, by the way, since it doesn't do business in the EU. (HN's owners, being billionaire VCs, are less scared of the law than random site owners who think if they don't block all IP addresses of RIPE NCC it will count as doing business in the EU)
The "right to be forgotten" is not about preventing information from being sucked up by algorithms as stopping people from finding information about someone easily. It is more complex than that:
https://gdpr.eu/right-to-be-forgotten/ https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Right_to_be_forgotten#European...
In many cases URLs have been removed from search results but remain on the original site.
I have seen far more small sites blocking UK users because of the Online Safety Act than I ever saw blocking EU users because of the right to be forgotten.