The right to be forgotten rule comes from the European Union and only affects links to content not content itself, and the UK has reservations about it
Welsh? Last time I checked you can sue for libel anywhere in the UK or in any other Western Liberal Democracy.
From: dancase@frontiernet.net
To: gendergap@lists.wikimedia.org
Date: Tue, 25 Aug 2015 14:48:21 -0400
Subject: Re: [Gendergap] Amazon petition
>This
is the problem that I have with the whole notion of 'first amendment = trump
card'. If he were British and self-published from a >laptop within the UK
then he would be arrested for hate speech, and that would be the end of him and
his book(s).
Yes,
and if English-Welsh law governed Wikipedia he could then sue for libel and have
all that reliably-sourced critical material removed regardless of it being
truthful, and then make sure that the fact that it was removed cannot be
reported in any news article that would show up in search results due to some
“’right’ to be forgotten”.
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