From The Denver Post:  To have regrets is part of the human condition.

Who doesn’t have at least one intemperate comment or lamentable episode that they’d rather not remember?

Coming to terms with imperfection in oneself and others is part of life, especially in the Internet age where information lives forever.

Unless, of course, you reside in the European Union, where an emerging “right to be forgotten” allows people to erase the digital connective tissue to embarrassing information, even if accurate.

What arrogance to think people should be able to edit history, an undertaking that inevitably will be manipulated by the powerful and undermined by the vast reach of the Internet.

Thank goodness we live in a country that so values free speech that we would never allow such a thing, right?

I wish it were so.

Across the country and even in Colorado, there have been recent efforts to block access to arrest records, convictions and even legally obtained but humiliating photographs.

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