Name: TECHDEBATE-RIGHTTOFORGET
Uploaded: 2014-12-11
Duration: 1 min 43 s
Description: TECHDEBATE-RIGHTTOFORGET

[ NOISE ] The founder of the web says that Europe's right to be forgotten rule is dangerous and goes too far. Bob, does it? Not at all. So European courts have ruled that Europeans have the right to request of a search engine that it removes links pertaining to certain individuals that might be either outdated or irrelevant. And I have no problem with this. I think it's totally respectful of people's privacy. They should have the right to request this. I think it's crazy. Let's be honest, the internet is a beautiful place because it's largely unregulated. And if you're Google, you go to google. com, you wanna use their search engine, you wanna look for a certain term, you're not gonna trust it if you're not getting that comprehensive, exhaustive list of things on, on the, on the web. But we can't ignore the political forces at play here. Google for instance, totally owns the market share of the search engine business in Europe. And European countries are not so willing to just hand over all of this data to American tech companies. They wanna have some power. [ CROSSTALK ] But that's all politics. And that's totally reasonable. Come on. That's politics. Let's look at the economics here. If you're Google, you have to throttle results based on certain countries, based on certain regions. Too difficult. I'm not saying it's not technically possible, of course it is. But these are the kinda regulations that put a burden on tech companies and make it hard for them to pivot and move around and offer the right services to the right consumers. Can't the results just take care of themselves? Let's say I'm some no- name individual who had something totally embarrassing happening to me at a young age, and it follows me, it's on the news and any time you search for me, that's the first thing that comes up in Google. You know, I think that I should totally have the right to get rid of them. Why should that stay there? Look, I'm a free speech junkie. I'm gonna disagree with you, but I'll leave it at that. For one show you have no right to forget, come to Fortune. com for more Tech Debate.