Will right to be forgotten lead to infringements of speech

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Question - Let us say you get a little crazy one night. You get drunk, take off too many clothes, and put yourself into some embarrassing poses. Because you feel so good, you decide to have your friends take photos of you with your phone, and theirs too. You post your photos on Facebook so everyone can see how much fun you are having. The next morning, you remember for Facebook postings.

Some argue that we have a right to control all information about ourselves (the right to be forgotten), there have been other countries that have moved toward regulations on data protection (Argentina, European Union).

There was a case in Germany where two men murdered someone, went to trial, got convicted, served their time, got released, and when they left the jail, they look up their famous victim's name on Wikipedia, and there they are, named as killers. They sued Wikipedia's parent company stating "We have been to jail, paid our debt to society, we want this incident forgotten. So, remove our names, not just from the German Wikipedia, take us out of all Wikipedia's." In America, this would be thrown out of court. We do not erase people out of history because they have a Right to Be Forgotten.

Will the "right to be forgotten" lead to infringements of free speech?

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