Moronic NY politicians propose clearly unconstitutional "right to be forgotten" censorship legislation

["Dave Farber" <farber () gmail com>]

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> From: Lauren Weinstein <lauren () vortex com>
> Date: March 15, 2017 at 11:30:06 AM EDT
> To: nnsquad () nnsquad org
> Subject: [ NNSquad ] Moronic NY politicians propose clearly unconstitutional "right to be forgotten" censorship 
> legislation
>
>
> Moronic NY politicians propose clearly unconstitutional "right to be forgotten" censorship legislation
>
> N.Y. bill would require people to remove 'inaccurate,' 'irrelevant,' 'inadequate' or 'excessive' statements about 
> others
>
> https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/volokh-conspiracy/wp/2017/03/15/n-y-bill-would-require-people-to-remove-inaccurate-irrelevant-inadequate-or-excessive-statements-about-others/
>
>      So, under this bill, newspapers, scholarly works, copies of
>    books on Google Books and Amazon, online encyclopedias
>    (Wikipedia and others) -- all would have to be censored
>    whenever a judge and jury found (or the author expected them
>    to find) that the speech was "no longer material to current
>    public debate or discourse" (except when it was "related to
>    convicted felonies" or "legal matters relating to violence" in
>    which the subject played a "central and substantial" role).
>    And of course the bill contains no exception even for material
>    of genuine historical interest; after all, such speech would
>    have to be removed if it was "no longer material to current
>    public debate."  Nor is there an exception for autobiographic
>    material, whether in a book, on a blog or anywhere else. Nor
>    is there an exception for political figures, prominent
>    businesspeople and others.
>
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>
> Obviously unconstitutional. Move to Russia, China, or the EU, you jerks.
>
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