UK orders Google to remove search results

From Hot Air:

This is either disturbing or futile… possibly both. The “Right to be Forgotten” concept is still all the rage in some corners of Europe and Britain seems to be taking it very seriously. After a prolonged battle, Google has now been ordered to remove certain articles from their search results because the items are considered to be at least “irrelevant” (though not inaccurate) and may be damaging to the reputation of the subject of a story.
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More to the point, though, is the privacy vs transparency issue. People shouldn’t be able to post and leave up patently untrue, slanderous things, but that’s a different question entirely. If something is historically accurate but embarrassing it seems to me that the subject shouldn’t be able to simply shuffle it off down the memory hole to avoid personal issues. And if this trend spreads further, Google may as well just shut down because they’ll be spending all of their time deleting links and fighting off lawsuits from people who have untidy bits of business in their past.

This would only happen in Europe. Here, the bar is much higher.