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by hobs 3569 days ago
There are definitely reasons to support hiding information, but the simple act of it being hidden does not make it immoral if you bring it to light.

It is trivial to form the moral argument for the opposite argument: say I am a corporation (for instance DOW Chemical) and I have a right of personhood in my country, remove negative articles about me from the internet.

If a judge orders it Google will do it, they dont make a moral argument back to a court order(generally), and at that point you have taken critical information away from the greater public (say, that the corp is poisoning people.)