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File this under the law of unintended (but entirely predictable) consequences. After hearing reports that Google had decided to remove a BBC News article from its search results that detailed the disastrous tenure of former Merrill Lynch CEO Stan O’Neal, a spokesperson for the European Commission has now come out and said that Google’s removal of the article was “not a good judgement.” At this point we should recall that it was The European Union’s own European Court of Justice that told Google that EU citizens had a “right to be forgotten” and that they could order the company to remove search results related to them as long as they featured “inadequate, irrelevant or no longer relevant” information. Of course, what constitutes “inadequate, irrelevant or