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The original case was a Spanish cook being haunted by the first google result for his name being an article in a local newspaper about his restaurant going bankrupt decades ago. No scandal or such, just an ordinary bankruptcy, but he could demonstrate that it was impacting his current business.
He sued, and google had to remove the thing. Not when you search for his name and bankruptcy, not when you search for "what happened to that restaurant", and the newspaper itself also didn't have to do anything. As far as I know you can still find the article.
If you're a journalist writing the guy's biography, you'll find it, push come to shove in some offline archive. But random people won't see him nailed to a virtual pillory, that's what all this is about.
I don't think it's really an issue for AI, but it has to be engineered in. Ultimately it's about judging relevancy.