“Each request has to be assessed individually and we're working as quickly as possible to get through the queue." A Google spokesman told Reuters that they’ve just started to take action with the request for removals that they’ve received. How that plays out on a practical level is a controversial and laborious undertaking. The court ruled that citizens have the rights to request information be removed from search results that include their names if it is "inadequate, irrelevant, or no longer relevant, or excessive." That case, which has major implications for Google and other mostly US-based companies, revolves around a Spanish man who wanted links from newspaper articles about his debt problems – from 15 years ago – removed from Google. The case comes as the issue of the “right to be forgotten,” upheld by the European Court of Justice in May, is creating headaches across the Internet. Therefore, she reasoned, the title should be changed so “place to avoid” was less prominent. The judge, according to court documents reported by the BBC, said that her blog, with over 3,000 followers, came up as the fourth result any time someone searched for the restaurant in Google. She also made a very good point to the local newspaper Sud Ouest that if bloggers don’t have the liberty to write bad reviews, good reviews become essentially meaningless. But it does carry the risk that other bloggers could tone down their criticism in fear of retaliation. Letter from Moscow: When war suddenly explodes over your roofĭoudet told The Christian ScienceMonitor that the experience won’t have legal repercussions for other bloggers, since French lawyers are fairly unanimous about the fact that her case doesn’t set legal precedent, she says. And that takes a lot of work. Today’s lead story, as arduous as it was, is an attempt to do that – to understand an important part of America just a little bit better, to help open the door to progress for all. Finding answers will be impossible without understanding those deeper forces. The roots of violence everywhere are as much mental as political, influenced by culture and values. But that same rule applies to all regions – in the U.S. To ensure he got the story right, Patrik went back a second time. What we found was a portrait not of policies or legislative bills, but of an underlying mental landscape and how that has led to higher rates of violence. Why?In traveling to Nashville, Tennessee, and Alexander City, Alabama, Noah Robertson and Patrik Jonsson sought to show different faces of violence in the South, in large cities and rural hamlets, without falling into stereotypes or shallow narratives. And within these trends, one sticks out for its clarity and constancy: The American South has dramatically higher levels of violence. There is no single “gun violence problem” in the United States, but different challenges in different places. Rather, it is a product of the subject: the roots of violence. American conversations about gun violence – particularly mass shootings – often revolve around gun laws and mental health.But the closer we looked, the more we saw something else. Today’s lead article was not one of those stories. That’s not criticism. An idea emerges, and with a minimum of fuss, it is done. Sometimes, a story comes together with kinetic beauty.
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