{"id":58766,"date":"2014-07-03T10:22:39","date_gmt":"2014-07-03T09:22:39","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.indexoncensorship.org\/?p=58766"},"modified":"2018-04-13T16:59:28","modified_gmt":"2018-04-13T15:59:28","slug":"right-forgotten-blunt-instrument-ruling-opens-door-widespread-censorship","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.indexoncensorship.org\/newsite02may\/?p=58766","title":{"rendered":"Right to be forgotten: &#8220;A blunt instrument ruling that opens the door for widespread censorship&#8221;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Commenting on the recent articles removed from search engines by Google, Jodie Ginsberg, CEO of Index on Censorship, said:<\/p>\n<p>\u201cAs Index on Censorship warned when the ruling was delivered last month the &#8216;right to be forgotten&#8217; is a blunt instrument ruling that opens the door for widespread censorship and the whitewashing of the past.<\/p>\n<p>Private companies like Google should not have been handed the power to make decisions \u2013 that lack any kind of transparency and accountability \u2013 about what information can and cannot be found on the internet.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Further information:<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.indexoncensorship.org\/newsite02may\/2014\/05\/index-urges-court-rethink-ruling-right-forgotten\/\">Index urges court to rethink ruling on \u201cright to be forgotten\u201d<\/a> (30 May, 2014)<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.indexoncensorship.org\/newsite02may\/2014\/05\/cjeu-closing-open-web\/\">Are search engines the ultimate arbiters of information?<\/a> (14 May, 2014)<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.indexoncensorship.org\/newsite02may\/2014\/05\/index-blasts-eu-court-ruling-right-forgotten\/\">Index blasts EU court ruling on \u201cright to be forgotten\u201d<\/a> (13 May, 2014)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Commenting on the recent articles removed from search engines by Google, Jodie Ginsberg, CEO of Index on Censorship, said: \u201cAs Index on Censorship warned when the ruling was delivered last month the &#8216;right to be forgotten&#8217; is a blunt instrument ruling that opens the door for widespread censorship and the whitewashing of the past. Private [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":14,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_et_pb_use_builder":"","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","_mi_skip_tracking":false},"categories":[366,6534],"tags":[179,6323,3211],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.indexoncensorship.org\/newsite02may\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/58766"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.indexoncensorship.org\/newsite02may\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.indexoncensorship.org\/newsite02may\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.indexoncensorship.org\/newsite02may\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/14"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.indexoncensorship.org\/newsite02may\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=58766"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/www.indexoncensorship.org\/newsite02may\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/58766\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":99633,"href":"https:\/\/www.indexoncensorship.org\/newsite02may\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/58766\/revisions\/99633"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.indexoncensorship.org\/newsite02may\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=58766"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.indexoncensorship.org\/newsite02may\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=58766"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.indexoncensorship.org\/newsite02may\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=58766"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}