Concert pianist demands that ‘defamatory’ Washington Post review of a performance from 2010 be stripped from search results under European Union’s ‘right to be forgotten’ law.
Dejan Lazic, a performer from Croatia, said that a ‘defamatory’ review of his performance in Washington, D.C. should not appear alongside Google searches for his name because it is ‘opinionated’ and ‘mean-spirited’.
Lazic wrote to the Washington Post, which published the review by classical music writer Anne Midgette, to have the article removed from search results.
He called the review: ‘Defamatory, mean-spirited, opinionated, one-sided, offensive [and] simply irrelevant for the arts’ – despite the fact that the original piece is in many places complimentary.
Talk about getting your panties in a bunch.
And why am I not surprised Europe has a law actually mandating a memory hole?
What a maroon!
If he’d just STFU about it, this item would be forgotten.
It’s four years old, FFS…an eternity in the cyber age.
Forgotten what?
Never knew about it before. Now I do.
Hahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahaha
Thanks, dickwad.
To the NYT: We strongly request that you make sure no one ever sees any negative reviews of the book, “Profiles in
PlagiarismCourage.”Or ELSE, yeah, we know Bradlees deader than a kennedie but DO IT anyway.
the kennedies
Another textbook example of The Streisand Effect.
Gee that fairy guy sure gets around! He’s been popping up on a whole lot of these threads! /s