Where content exposes private information, the position is much stronger than with general criticism, both with platforms and with Google directly.
Home addresses, phone numbers, government identification numbers, financial and medical information, login credentials, and non-consensual personal imagery.
Ask the host site to remove it, and separately ask Google to de-index it. Pursuing both simultaneously is faster than sequentially.
Platforms and search engines treat personal information differently from criticism. There are established policies here, which means a well-documented request has a genuine chance.
Removal from one place is not removal from everywhere. Content gets syndicated, so monitoring afterwards matters as much as the original removal.
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