[smsm42]

Streisand effect can only exist when the speech is free. When EU can ban any mention of a politician being embroiled in a juicy scandal 10 years ago, how would you disseminate this information? Only at great risk to yourself. This is not what should be happening in a free country, but apparently EU doesn't really need all the troubles of being free countries, their politicians are completely fine to deny their citizens the right of free speech. It's safer for them this way.

[jacquesm]

The EU can not ban any such mention, you are completely misrepresenting the intent and the actual use of these laws.

Free speech American Style is American, the EU is different, whether better or worse is not for me to decide but it is the law of the land and as such it should be respected by corporations operating there.

The EU is concerned with privacy here, you are concerned with censorship, those are not the same concepts and they are not addressed by the same mechanisms.

The fact that in some EU countries (ex) politicians hold large stakes in media conglomerates and can manipulate public opinion is a much bigger source for worry than that some politician embroiled in a juicy scandal would be able to wipe his trail completely. Especially newspapers will take a serious stance against that and it will simply not work.

[smsm42]

>>> Especially newspapers will take a serious stance against that and it will simply not work.

Or they won't, as you noticed they are owned by ex-politicians. Or they would, but the law gets passed anyway and what they do? They don't have 1st amendment to appeal to, so they get nothing.

>>> Free speech American Style is American, the EU is different, whether better or worse is not for me to decide

Why not for you? Nobody can prohibit you to think for yourself and decide if having freedom of speech is better or worse than not having it. Not even EU can, at least for now until they didn't invent "right not to be thought of".

[ASneakyFox]

News papers are going digital. Google search engines is how many people get their news (searching news web sites)