Godwin's Law. Google, Microsoft, et.al. legally avoiding some taxes is equivalent to Nazi atrocities. Nicely done.

So, it's just a matter of magnitude. Big corporations doing what is legal is bad because of the amount involved. Do you have any idea how much taxes Google actually pays? The figure was worldwide taxes avoided. Do you think Google should pay taxes to repressive regimes, for instance? Do you think taxes worldwide are always fair? The "outrage" is manufactured but the actual data is lacking.

This is a very, very bogus report. "Outrage"? Come on! Is it legal? Yes. Is there some kind of "moral requirement" that we all maximize the taxes we have to pay or suffer "outrage"? Don't we all look for all the deductions we can legally get away with? WTF is all the bogus "outrage" at perfectly normal, legal behavior?

I don't debate fools because it's a complete waste of time. You might not be a fool. If you actually want to debate, please repost your argument without the histrionics and I'll assume you are actually sane and debate with you.

LOL! God! I do love a fool! Let's address your "arguments", shall we?

That's compelling! I never considered that.

I'm convinced. Your "arguments" are completely convincing. You win!

Yeah....Still not for me.

I would not choose to live in an environment which required absolute, strict compliance with every law, every regulation, every statute all the time by every single person, no exceptions, no leeway, no excuses. But that's just me.

Ooog! While I understand your point and I can sympathize with your annoyance, I would truly hate to live in such a world. It isn't the constant fines that would bother me, it would be the constant surveillance and the onerous bureaucracy that would make me flee. It really would be "1984" come to life. If the government had that kind of power, it would abuse it for all it's worth.

Protip: If you have to resort to insults, you've lost the debate.

Got it. You believe in magic. No problem.

Back at you. LOL!

You can cherry-pick all the "examples" you want but you are avoiding the broad picture.

How would this "Right" to be forgotten work? Who has to spend the time and money to search everywhere for "your" data? Are you going to? Or do you expect someone to do all that for you? In many cases the original posting was by the person who now wants it removed, so who is responsible for tracking down all the places it might have gone?

Who does all that work? What do they look for, your name? If so, how do they know which "Bob Jones" is you? What bits of information about "you" are they supposed to "erase"? The data exists all over the place and all Facebook, Google, et. al. can do is delete the link. Oops! The data you found so embarrassing is still there somewhere but now it's harder for you to locate to get it removed.

Do you expect some vague "government agency" to patrol all the Internet and tell all those sites what to "erase"? When has any government agency been that effective, or do you believe in magic?

Even if the "right" to be forgotten was a good idea, which I don't agree with, what magical incantation would make your embarrassing information "disappear"? It. Isn't. Possible.

That is one thing we have all learned about the Internet. Information does not disappear. I know you wish it were otherwise -- a lot of people do, but that's just the way it is. Passing a law that mandates something that is impossible to do is the epitome of stupid. You simply cannot make the Internet completely remove data. You know this because you alluded to it, so why do you think this law will do anything but require various companies waste tons of time and money attempting to do the impossible?

That's the broad picture that you are ignoring.

Wow! I didn't know that. You own every bit of information about you? Fantastic. So you tell the government to erase everything it knows about you and it does? I'm moving there right away.

I was not disagreeing with you.

However, the stupid "Right to be Forgotten" was never a hallmark of the United States. The right to privacy certainly might be considered that, but that really isn't the same thing.

I was not clear. The action of you choosing to delete your account or your post is not the same thing as you forcing Facebook to delete someone else's posts (which happen to include your name, etc.).

They don't need any "excuse". That's their business model. They provide all sorts of free services that their users like and in exchange their users have agreed to Facebook using all their data.

I get a kick out of people, using Facebook for free, complaining and complaining about how Facebook uses their data in ways that they agreed to.

Comedy is plentiful these days.

Obviously not. Like I said there are no laws, no "rights", no rules that will protect you from stupidity -- not even this stupid "right" to be forgotten. Sorry, no help for you when it comes to stupidity. Deal with it.