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LISLE A Lisle native, museum curator and 22-year-old college student has joined forces with his North Central College professor to create an exhibit exploring the history of Chicago film censorship.

Brian Failing, a senior at North Central, cowrote an upcoming exhibit at the Lisle Station Museum with associate professor of speech communication and coordinator for the college's urban and suburban studies program, Steve Macek, called, "Banned in Chicago: Eight Decades of Film Censorship in the Windy City."

The exhibit is the result of research the two conducted for a book Macek is working on. Failing was Macek's research assistant over the course of two summers.

"He was very excited about the research we were doing on the history of film censorship in Chicago," Macek said. "He thought it would make a compelling exhibit."

Failing has worked at the museum since he was 15 years old, and took over as curator his senior year of high school.

"I thought (film censorship) was a topic that's really important and really interesting that I think a lot of people will like, because everyone likes stuff that has to do with films, movies and Hollywood," Failing said.

In 1907, Chicago became the first city in the country to create a local film censorship authority, Macek said. The city also had the longest-lasting such authority in the country it was dissolved in 1984 after funding for the agency stopped.

"When it was first created, the police chief the head of Chicago police was responsible for reviewing and licensing films," Macek said. "Any films that were amoral or obscene could be banned."

About a decade after the agency was created, Macek said the authority was delegated to a civilian board, which was usually chaired by a police officer. The other members of the board were often women.

"The thinking was that women had a stronger moral sense than men and were better able to determine what was suitable," Macek said.

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Remember Justine Sacco, the PR exec who famously tweeted, Going to Africa. Hope I dont get AIDS. Just kidding. Im white! before hopping aboard a flight to South Africa last December? The tweet went viral while she was airborne and, by the time she landed, half the planet thought she was an insensitive racist jerk. Then she got fired.

But that wasnt the worst of it, not by a long shot. To this day, Googling her name generates hundreds of thousands of results that, near as I can tell, all reference her ill-conceived brush with infamy. Shell probably have to change her name to escape the episode and Googles web crawlers and indexers.

Unless, of course, Sacco moves to Europe. In its infinite wisdom, the European Union Court of Justice has ruled that people can demand that Google (GOOG) remove links in search results for their name, and the Silicon Valley company has to comply. And theres no appeal on such a ruling by the EUs highest court. This is a done deal.

Bet you didnt see that coming. I know I didnt. Apparently, neither did Google.

On the surface, it sounds reasonable enough. Youve done something dumb or somebody important posts something terrible about you, why shouldnt there be a recourse to set the record straight?

Someone who really wants to dig stuff up on you might still be able to find whatever it is youd like hidden (although, among the billions of online pages, without a search engine, Im not sure how). But why should one or two incidents dominate the first place everyone looks to find out about you and color your personal brand for all of eternity?

But when you stop and think about it, when you let the implications of this unassailable ruling sink in, the idea is so wrong and its implementation will have to be so subjective that it will undoubtedly threaten not just the integrity of the Internet the integrity of what used to be a free society.

Consider this: Should we erase an entry from the Library of Congress for any reason? We wouldnt burn any books Fahrenheit 451 style but just delete the references so we can make believe they dont exist that the events they chronicle never really happened and make everyone search through thousand of shelves to find them.

And which references to which books would we erase? The Rise and Fall of the Third Reich. Youve got to admit, that was some pretty evil stuff. Im sure there are white supremacy groups that would love to see that go away. How about Ball Four, the blockbuster that embarrassed Major League Baseball and tarnished Mickey Mantels pristine reputation? Or The Smartest Guys in the Room, about the Enron scandal? What about novels like Atlas Shrugged? I know an awful lot of people that would kill to see all references to Ayn Rands controversial and politically charged work simply vanish into thin air.

The EUs highest court says we all have the right to be forgotten, that events from the past however lawful and accurate their representations might be simply stop being relevant or become excessive, in time. We should all have the right to move on with our lives and let the past be forgotten. Let bygones be bygones.

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