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Does a person have a right to distribute their thoughts in a way they can't take back?
For instance, do I have the right to print my words on paper and hand them out to people in the town square?
If I do that, I cannot subsequently chase all those people down and demand that they destroy their copies of my words.
The notion of a "right to be forgotten" entails that if I give you a book I have written, that you must keep track of me so that I may later demand that you burn that book. This is directly contrary to your right to retain that book as your personal property; to our culture's right to retain historical facts that I might later find politically inconvenient; etc.