I think the right to be forgotten applies to digital records, I might be missing the context here though.

People can remember all they want… It’s the permanent digital record indexed by search engines, available at the tip of your fingers anywhere anytime - that is the problem.

> 1984 had a pretty good argument why it’s dystopian to tell people they are not allowed to remember or continue believing something.

Its a good book. It should also be tempered with a little Jane Austen, about the tyranny of unshakable reputation. My take is it's the "telling people what they are allowed to do" part that is dystopian. To that extent all laws are dystopian. However we do it all the time and obtain great wider benefit. For example, bad money choices might lead someone into insoluble debt, they declare bankruptcy, and seven years later that is deleted from public records so they can make a fresh start. In reality a "right to be forgotten" is more of a right to be forgiven. Asking that people forgive and discount past wrongs is not the same as poisoning and torturing them in a basement until their minds are wiped, as in some demonic MK-UTLTRA shitshow.