[whstl]

Actually it does exists, as part of GDPR and then added into the law of individual EU nations.

Whether it applies to Stack Overflow posts is another discussion. IMO it doesn't due to Creative Commons licensing.

[colejohnson66]

The right to be forgotten does not mean you content has to be taken down, just that it no longer has to be associable with you.

[whstl]

> The right to be forgotten does not mean you content has to be taken down

As with almost anything GDPR: it really depends on the content, on the website, on the situation. There's no clear cut answer that applies to all cases.

And copyright law also enters into the picture here, which is why I added the second paragraph.

[lxgr]

As I understand it, the right to be forgotten is a related but distinct concept to the GDPR.