This is a significant departure from previous applications of the right, which have always distinguished between delisting Google search results and removing content at source. Having had a sell-by date applied to its journalism, Primadanoi, is indeed now ‘The First Among Us’, but not in the way it would like. This failure to distinguish between source and search engine caused Primadanoi to thunder that ‘Italian law does not understand technology or the internet’. Consequently, in Italy at least, ‘the right to be forgotten’ now has a new meaning: the right to remove inconvenient journalism from archives after two years. The reason they could do so, it seems, is a flaw in the protection offered to journalists by Italian law, once articles are no longer current.

Source: The Guardian September 20, 2016 08:12 UTC