The right to be forgotten is not something I strongly oppose. I'm sort of undecided on that issue specifically. I see arguments either way as to whether some sort of right is potentially a good idea, because I do see a problem and I do see a change in the way information is recorded, which the Internet has wrought.
That being said, there are huge problems with the way it's been rolled out in Europe, partly because the decision, when the European Court of Justice first handed it down, didn't provide a huge amount of clarity on how it should be applied. It provided vastly broad categories for what could be susceptible to the right to be forgotten, which led to a huge amount of confusion. I think the last I saw, something like 150,000 or 170,000 websites had been taken down as a result of that. Huge numbers of applications have been made.
I see problems with the way it has been rolled out in terms of a lack of clarity. I also question the wisdom of bundling it with the search engines themselves. As private sector actors, they're not well equipped to engage in that kind of balancing. When you impose this kind of potential for liability on them, without their necessarily having the proper processes in place to respect the freedom of expression interests that are engaged, what you end up with is a tendency to remove information whenever there's a complaint. That's a problematic approach.