Letters

摘要

Your leader on the landmark judgment in Europe against Google suggested that it would do more harm than good to force Google and others to eradicate "inconvenient truths" ("On being forgotten", May 17th). But doesn't that depend on what those truths are? No reasonable person would think it right to allow Google to link to a secretly filmed video of a couple making out in a hotel room, or, at the other extreme, prevent it from linking to the details surrounding a corrupt politician's actions. The same applies to the relevance of old information that no one any longer needs. It all depends on the circumstances of each case.