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Under the recent controversial "right to be forgotten" EU ruling, the search engines (well, mostly Google) are required to remove the links that point to old, inaccurate or irrelevant information from the search results if the person involved requests it. This is only applied when the search terms include the person's name — the links can still be found by using different search terms. In case of Google, delisting has been limited to the European sub-domains, but the EU wants Google to expand it to it's core .com domain, as reported by the BBC:
At present, visitors are diverted to localised editions of the US company's search tool - such as Google.co.uk and Google.fr - when they initially try to visit the Google.com site.
However, a link is provided at the bottom right-hand corner of the screen offering an option to switch to the international .com version. This link does not appear if the users attempted to go to a regional version in the first place.
Even so, it means it is possible for people in Europe to easily opt out of the censored lists.
The data watchdogs said[pdf] this "cannot be considered a sufficient means to guarantee the rights" of citizens living in the union's 28 member countries.
(Score: 2) by Immerman on Thursday November 27 2014, @04:06AM
You must have been fortunate enough to overlook the rash of anti-systemd spam that's been hitting the boards. I've got nothing against folks ranting about their pet peeve of choice, so long as it's at least tangentially on topic. But when you get someone spamming every space, GMO, etc. article with their crap it just wastes everyone's attention.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Thursday November 27 2014, @04:31AM
I've seen them. All the ones I've seen have been connected to the submission topic in some way, so I think they're relevant.
(Score: 1) by khallow on Thursday November 27 2014, @06:58AM
All the ones I've seen have been connected to the submission topic in some way
That just means they aren't completely off-topic trolls. Having said that, the furor among Debian users concerning systemd is the biggest open source story of the year, I think.
(Score: 2) by Immerman on Thursday November 27 2014, @05:29PM
You are either less observant or far more generous than I. "This satellite should run sytemd so that it explodes on impact"* or "Good thing this GMO corn isn't running systemd or..."* are not remotely on-topic, they're transparent attempts to hijack the topic to something completely unrelated. To say nothing of the posts that just rant against systemd without any attempt to even humorously link it with the topic on hand.
*comments made up on the spot to illustrate the "flavor" of many that I have seen.