Call the WAAAAHHmbulance

The EU clown court known as the European Court of Justice is trying to force the internet to forget things that people claim they want forgotten.

Max Mosley enjoyed sexual practices which many might find odd. But that was his business, so when in 2008 a now-defunct British tabloid wrongly dubbed him a participant in a “sick Nazi orgy”, he sued it for breaching his privacy and won. The allegations, however, remain on the internet. If you type in “Max Mosley”, Google (whose boss Eric Schmidt is a non-executive director of this paper)* helpfully tries to complete the search: the first four options are “video”, “case”, “pictures” and “scandal”. He—and many others who feel their lives are tainted by the smears and irrelevancies which search engines link to their names—want redress.

Here's a novel idea: if you don't want to be known for doing weird and disgusting shit, don't do weird and disgusting shit. It's downright fucking amazing how that works, isn't it?

But this is all just whining and carping; the internet doesn't forget. Ever. No amount of sand-in-your-twat legislation is going to change that fact. Of course, this is coming from the same group of people who think that if you ban swastikas, Nazism will be forgotten and nobody will ever do such a thing ever again.