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mostly found in Europe, RTBF 'is the right to have private information about a person be removed from Internet searches and other directories in some circumstances. The issue has arisen from desires of individuals to "determine the development of their life in an autonomous way, without being perpetually or periodically stigmatized as a consequence of a specific action performed in the past".[2]'

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[–] thatcrow@ttrpg.network 1 points 14 hours ago

Man, the trans agenda really knows know bounds and will stop at nothing to protect the fragile feelings of people who can't accept reality.

[–] FriendOfDeSoto@startrek.website 10 points 5 days ago

I think it is hard though, legislatively, as the RTBF already proves. It's a terribly vague set of rules that put search engines in the position where they have to evaluate a claim and then sit in judgement over it with little to no oversight and then only a public form of objection if this somehow ends up in a court. This is not a good process. Adding more reasons to use a bad process doesn't sound like a great idea regardless of how well intentioned they are.

An issue I see are massive Streisand effects. One is occurring if you need to take a Google to court for not following up on your RTBF claim. Nobody really cared about your drunk driving incident from 2019 until you fill the headlines with your court proceedings. Now everybody knows. The other is this: let's say Roberta became Robert. Calling him Roberta would be dead naming him. But if every time I framed it as "Robert Streisand (known until 2023 as Roberta Streisand)" I'm merely stating fact and I don't see how many courts will intervene against that. Why can virtually everybody still dead name Chelsea Manning? Because every time her name was mentioned post transition they added this factual context. So all you will achieve in the end is that all trolls and dickheads will just use the legally defendable boiler plate phrase. And hang a much brighter lantern on the issue.

Just to be clear: I'm not defending anybody deadnaming somebody else. I'm just looking at this issue, the RTBF, and I'm thinking of that road to hell and with what it is paved.

[–] ohulancutash@feddit.uk 5 points 5 days ago* (last edited 5 days ago) (1 children)

If Walter committed minor fraud and is now Wendy, she can avail herself of the right to be forgotten. But if Wendy used to run Walter’s Windows and Doors, I don’t see the argument how that in itself is stigmatisation. Being Walter wasn’t an action.

[–] ms_lane@lemmy.world 2 points 4 days ago

RTBF doesn't prevent governments from remembering. Only public facing databases.

[–] gedaliyah@lemmy.world 0 points 5 days ago (1 children)

Who on earth would downvote this? Smh

[–] thatcrow@ttrpg.network 1 points 14 hours ago* (last edited 14 hours ago) (1 children)

I did.

It's just another attempt by a mentally ill person to control what other people get to say.

If trans people really want to be treated like everyone else, then they have to learn to deal with people calling them names they don't like.

OP wants to be coddled like a child, and will get mad at anyone who gets in the way of it.

[–] Aatube@kbin.melroy.org 0 points 11 hours ago

i’m not even trans cro

If trans people really want to be treated like everyone else, then they have to learn to deal with people calling them names they don't like.

i dunno about you but i couldn’t follow the logic here sorry :