It means the search engines can't stick their fingers in their ears and ignore real people's legitimate needs to put their past mistakes behind them.
Imagine you meet someone on a dating site, and they assault you on your date. They serve their time, and now have a 'right to be forgotten'.
Do future potential dates not get to know that their date that night has been convicted of assault against someone else, also on a first date? Am I not allowed to warn those people?