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How a silent movie informs the current debate over the right to be forgotten

  • Written by Bill Kovarik, Professor of Communication, Radford University
How a silent movie informs the current debate over the right to be forgottenHeadlines and headaches for those unable to escape their past.Wikimedia Commons

In 1915, Gabrielle Darley killed a New Orleans man who had tricked her into a life of prostitution. She was tried, acquitted of murder and within a few years was living a new life under her married name, Melvin. Then a blockbuster movie, “The Red Kimono,”...

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