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by Goronmon 4397 days ago
How so? It's not requests from the state that are discussed but from individuals.

How is it any different when individuals work for the state? Couldn't government entities just submit complaints on behalf of their employees? Hell, why wouldn't the government just have employees have to sign a form allowing for the government to send out blanket complaints to Google every month to remove information related to them or their work?

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It's different in principle. I'm not saying that this will be easy to manage in practice, that's not the point I was trying to make. There seems to be some clear cut cases however, like bullying and character assassinations where perhaps law enforcement is involved. I think the question it self is important, and it will be interesting to see how this works out in practice.