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> ban posting that sort of information before a conviction.

A society that does not make arrest information public is one where it is very easy for someone to "disappear." That's the whole point.



If the government is trying to disappear people, then having in place the mechanisms for a right to be forgotten seems like it would only help them disappear people more thoroughly.




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