Wikipedia Fighting "Right to Be Forgotten"
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Wikipedia's founder Jimmy Wales has revealed new details about what he describes as the site's "censorship" under the EU's "right to be forgotten" laws.
Wales revealed that Google has been asked to remove five links to Wikipedia in the last week. Now the Wikimedia Foundation, the non-profit group which runs the collaboratively edited encyclopaedia, has postedthe notices of removal from Google online.
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I not only don't have to be responsible for what I'm doing, I don't even have to be responsible for what I've done!