Essay On Censralization Of Internet

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An internet where individuals are allowed to have their skeletons kept in closet will lead to a censored internet. It is fallacious to embed the right to be forgotten in the right to privacy as there is a fundamental distinction between them. While privacy claims are justified by invoking libel or defamation for speech which is false, right to be forgotten is way more elastic, because claims can also be made on speech which is true. Further while privacy censors information unknown to the public but right to be forgotten censors information which was known to the public at some point of time. Scholars fear that all this would seriously hamper the integrity of internet based knowledge by producing patchy and biased results.
IV. LACK OF UNIVERSAL APPLICATION
The fundamental doctrine of any international law is its universal application transcending states and local law barriers. Although complete uniformity of law is not required, a substantial uniformity is necessary to achieve consistency. It not only will be difficult to formulate an international right to be forgotten because of the …show more content…

It is near to impossible to completely take down content from the Internet, as past experiences have shown. The decentralization of internet means that effective monitoring is extremely difficult, if not impossible. It is important to note that the current judicial interpretation only allows forgetting search results and the information on the internet as such. The content remains unaffected by a request to forget in its original location on the Internet. Invariably, it also flows that the same content can still be found based on a different query through the same search engine. This does not qualify as ‘driot a lóubli’ but only a sort of end-run around it, the attempt is only to make content harder to find. Only the index is being teared away, the entire book and chapter within remain

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