[minot]

Is the woman (who I shall keep unnamed) who tweeted about the people in front of her making jokes remarkable? Are the people she tweeted about remarkable? Could the woman ask to take down all articles surrounding the issue? Could the people she tweeted pictures of get the tweet taken down (assuming she hasn't already done so)? Could the people have every single website that has presumably scrape or screenshot twitter delete their archives?

To me, the simplest way to fix this is to throw out the right to be forgotten. Nobody has a right to be forgotten. The simplest implementation may not be the best but at least this is achievable.

[ominous]

There is no right to be forgotten in the real world. If anything, damnatio memoriae[0] was a punishment, not a privilege. Just as well, you can't ask for world population to forget a nursery rhyme, or me to forget I saw you riding a Segway. The internet is part of the real world. Everything happens in the real world, 'IRL' has been deprecated.

People (and the sub class 'legislators') should accept that.

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Damnatio_memoriae

[icebraining]

Just because it's called the Right to be Forgotten, doesn't mean it actually entails burning memories off people's heads. You're arguing against a strawman.

[ominous]

Thank you, and I understand. But I'm arguing that the internet is part of the collective memory of Man.