Misleading
It's very surprising to see how many people talk about this in terms of "websites being blocked" or websites "disappearing from the search engines" or similar. This ignores the fact that all that's removed from anywhere is a specific link from a specific personal search.
For example, there's a report on a prominent mafia trial where a contemporary news report wrongly associates an innocent person to the crimes. That person has successfully applied to Google and now if you search on that person's name, reference to the trial will not be shown. Search any of the other people involved and it still will be. Search for info on the trial and it still will be.
The website is not being blocked and nor is anyone's access to the information. The search results for the innocent person are no longer being tainted by wrong information, and I think that's the point of the ruling.
We should not believe all the outraged yelling about censorship from Google or their acolytes, and should try and understand the application of this ruling properly.
Biting the hand that feeds IT
