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In 2017, the top court set strict standards in a similar lawsuit, dismissing another man's request to remove news search results of his arrest for child prostitution from
At that time, the court decided that the deletion of search results can be allowed only when the significance of privacy protection clearly outweighs that of information disclosure.
The point of contention in this case was whether the same standards should apply to Twitter even if it does not have the same level of information infrastructure as
The man from northeastern
Following the incident, a series of tweets citing news articles carrying his name and the incident have been posted, affecting the man's job search.
The district court had ruled in favor of the man, but
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