# Should we have a right to be forgotten in the US

**URL:** <https://boards.straightdope.com/t/should-we-have-a-right-to-be-forgotten-in-the-us/701445>\
**Category:** In My Humble Opinion\
**Created:** [October 15, 2014, 10:05pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/should-we-have-a-right-to-be-forgotten-in-the-us/701445 "2014-10-15T22:05:02Z")\
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**Author:** ![Fair\_Rarity](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/fair_rarity/32/153_2.png) [@Fair\_Rarity](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Fair_Rarity)\
**Post date:** [October 24, 2014, 1:06am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/should-we-have-a-right-to-be-forgotten-in-the-us/701445/21 "2014-10-24T01:06:12Z")

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> [@BigT](#):
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> And distributing stolen stuff is already illegal. So I have no problem with Google being told to not index that sort of thing. That’s not what the “right to be forgotten” seems to be about. It’s about censoring legitimately public information because the person who it is about is ashamed of it.

But the thing is, can you make google not index it here in the US? So I think it fits under the general idea of the question. And some people aren’t reasonable or fair and DON’T think those things should be off limits, unfortunately.

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