The BBC’s displeasure with the right to be forgotten and its subsequent republishing of 182 of its Google-delisted links “needs to be viewed with considerable caution,” The Guardian opined, indicating that Google had already found the links to be conduits to “personal information that is inaccurate, irrelevant or out of date and holds no public interest,” and that the site “misleadingly” promoted the links. “It was a deliberate journalistic choice that causes public shame and has not meaningfully contributed in any way to better policy making,” the report states, continuing, “It looks petulant, not constructive. And in some cases, it deceptively withholds crucial details … without also identifying that the original story has been modified simultaneously to remove the complainant’s name. So much for transparency.”
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