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Re:Internet Archive Seeks to Defend Against Wrongful Copyrig... by ghaff on Friday March 25, 2016 @04:39PM (#11362522)
It's a valid question. If, for whatever reason, someone wanted to purge their identity from the Internet Archive as much as possible--including from properties that they did not control--I suppose they could try, but I doubt they's have much luck. For example, if you were to ask them to expunge any HN page that you had comments on. One issue is that there's no easy way to delete only your content if you're embedded in other discussions.

I expect it's a legal gray area that mostly works in part because most random forum posts are pseudonymous.

Re:Internet Archive Seeks to Defend Against Wrongful Copyrig... by cookiecaper on Friday March 25, 2016 @04:48PM (#11362578)
Not all pages contain content from other people. Most message boards have a page that shows just that users' posts. At least these should be pretty easy to get taken down by informing the IA that they don't have a license to display the content (which is true).