https://www.theatlantic.com/technology/archive/2011/02/in-eu...

Now why would I say this is about killing criticism of politicians? Well, here is an example of a person who used the right to be forgotten, who was in fact instrumental in creating it in the first place, as well of one of the first ever people to use it. I'm not going to elaborate further on the owners of this publication, except to say one is an EU billionnaire who made a LOT of money making academic papers inaccessible, and is also a user and supporter of this right to be forgotten.

The person who was in charge of EU at the time was Jose Manuel Barrosso, an extreme leftist Portugese politician, a law professor (with a very bad reputation when it comes to attacking students, including physically beating one into the hospital), betrayed communism, joined the PSD (Portugese Social Democrats), suddenly forced through heavy austerity after promising the opposite, then when he and his party had become deeply unpopular, forcing through the EU constitution against voter wishes, then abandoned his position as prime minister and his party to become president of the EU commission. If you look at the circumstances surrounding Portugal and the EU constitution effort and failure, obviously he was "compensated" by the EU and the EPP to directly go against voters' will to the advantage of the EU, and rewarded with the position of EU commission president. This person, who started out as a violent Maoist suspected of murder, EU commission president, ending his career as "non executive chairman" of Goldman Sachs, after they got some serious help from the commission when he was EU commission president, in 2008. For "some reason" he and, Neelie Kroes, the person who threatened us social media companies into accepting the right to be forgotten (remember? Google and Facebook refused to globally implement the right to be forgotten and this was the start of social media companies and the "monster fines" that are being levied every few years now). There was a whole fight.

As a student and assistant, he actually supported the massacres of the cultural revolution. On track to become a professor, he cheered on and demonstrated in support of Mao and the CCP massacring academics in China. This is also when he was involved as a leader in demonstrations ... demonstrations in which several people were killed.

Let's just say some of the details of this person's political career (and, frankly, academic career) could be criticized. Except he "has a right to be forgotten" (he clearly focuses on his student time). From a Maoist suspected of inciting murder, to EU commission president, to chairman of the board of Goldman Sachs ...

The EU criticizing the US about political name calling? Please.

I mean, I still agree what Trump's doing is bad, but the situation in the EU is much worse. Wait until you check out what this whole situation is leading to.