Yes, but Bill, you have thousands and thousands of poems to offer. Of course no editor has the stamina to check all
those.
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and even if we did, there'd be nothing to do, because most of these sites would be unresponsive. It would be like writing the Nigerian prince with a cease and desist order... 
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Well, that is because your senators and congressmen get paid for goofing off. When I self-google, I get this message posted below the page numbers.
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VIssa resultat kan ha tagits bort i enlighet med dataskyddslagstiftningen i Europa.
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Some results
have been removed to comply with European legislation on data protection. Read more
http://ec.europa.eu/justice/data-protection/
I do self-google now and then since the plagiarism of recent memory and this which Matt found has never come up in my list. But when I clicked the link Matt provided, it did. (BTW, thanks Matt.) So apparently that protection law isn't working as it should. I can't find all hits on my name (only about 24,000 and I used to get many, many more), but others can.
I don't mind so much if it is just workshopped stuff, I'm always up front about that anyway and don't workshop every text I write, but I don't like libelous and false things being there for all eternity. And if it is available, that increases the possibility of text theft. (I know, some people don't mind text theft and will probably post to say so again.)
The point of the EU law was to make it possible for citizens to ask for removal. I recently saw a nasty that I thought was gone forever that has now risen from the dead.
It's a Bad, Bad, Bad, Bad World
PS. Personal integrity isn't the only fight the EU is waging with the big boys.
http://time.com/3822956/google-eu-an...case-shopping/
You guys need to elect politicians that don't just punch in, then take a long lunch and punch out. Like whatsisname, Philly "Buster" Alnite.
Matt, don't be too sure that a search won't lead anywhere. When something is cached, it is still findable.