Forward this article (and related ones) to U.S. other media (print, radio, TV) for research and promulgation, except encourage them to dig up and post all details Goolnik wants disappeared — and even ones he hasn’t thought of yet. That way we will be documenting this silliness for historical purposes. This is one I’d love to see go viral.

We need to get THOUSANDS AND THOUSANDS of websites up all with identical content.

Taking bets we can make Thomas Goolnik either give up this worthless crap or have to spent every single waking hour trying to find the (automated) links that spring up every time one is taken down on google.

A simple crawler can search for a story, and if it’s taken down it informs a CGI script to book ANOTHER link of the same item at a slightly different URL…..and on and on….

Three of the articles on google.com first page, talk about his RTBF request on techdirt.

I don’t think he is going to be able to hide for much longer as other people keep bringing up his RTBF.

He seems to be some sort of opposite of Derek Smart:

If you write Smart’s name often enough, you’ll summon him.

If you write Goolnik’s name often enough, he’ll disappear…

“Thomas Goolnik Really Wants To Be Forgotten: Google Disappears Our Post About His Right To Be Forgotten Request”

Next weeks title

“Thomas Goolnik Really REALLY Wants To Be Forgotten: Google Disappears Our Post ABOUT OUR POST About His Right To Be Forgotten Request”

haha you wont be forgotten

Times Articles Removed From Google Results in Europe

By NOAM COHEN and MARK SCOTTOCT. 3, 2014

Google has notified The New York Times in the last month that links to five articles have been removed from some search results on European versions of its search engine to comply with Europe’s “right to be forgotten.”

The notifications offer vivid examples of the issues involved in Europe’s decision to allow individuals some measure of control over what appears online about themselves.

Of the five articles that Google informed The Times about, three are intensely personal — two wedding announcements from years ago and a brief paid death notice from 2001. Presumably, the people involved had privacy reasons for asking for the material to be hidden.

The other two Times articles are less about personal details than about reputation. And it is this concern — even if the facts are fairly reported — that represents a big difference between the way Europe and the United States regulate, or do not regulate, how information is presented online.

Unlike in the United States, where freedom of expression is a fundamental right that supersedes other interests, Europe views an individual’s privacy and freedom of expression as almost equal rights.

As a matter of policy, Google does not reveal who asked for the material to be shielded, or even what search terms will cause the articles to disappear from results.

A little online research — with the help of search engines — showed that each article had a person with a connection to Europe. Google and privacy lawyers are at loggerheads over whether anyone in the world can ask that material be hidden from European search engines, or only people in Europe.

One Times article that is being shielded from certain searches in Europe is a report from 2002 about a decision by a United States court to close three websites that the federal government accused of selling an estimated $1 million worth of unusable Web addresses. The complaint named three British companies, TLD Network, Quantum Management and TBS Industries, as well as two men who it said controlled the companies: Thomas Goolnik and Edward Harris Goolnik of London.

The case was later settled. Thomas Goolnik did not respond to messages left via social networking sites.

Since May, when the European high court made its initial decision on the right to be forgotten, Google has received roughly 140,000 privacy requests connected to more than 500,000 links, according to the company’s top lawyer. So far, the search giant has approved around half of the requests.

The bulk do not involve news websites. This summer, Google told several European media outlets, including the BBC and The Guardian, that links to some of their online articles had been removed from its European search results. Yet in a bizarre twist, the company later reinstated some of the links to The Guardian’s articles after that paper challenged Google’s decision.

In the last of The Times articles, a feature about a 1998 production of “Villa Villa” by the ensemble called De la Guarda, it was much harder to divine the objection. Not a review, the article explored how the antic, acrobatic show was managing “to get a generation raised on MTV interested in seeing live theater.”