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Re:Ask HN: Will HN allow account and comment deletions? by novia on Wednesday March 28, 2018 @03:15PM (#16700880)
It’s archaeology-hostile. It pisses me off to no end when I am searching for information on reddit and come across people replying to deleted posts by some paranoid user who wishes comments were more ephemeral like Snapchat.

This is what the next dark age of mankind will be like, people from the future looking for historical information and finding nothing but deleted or decayed data

No. It absolutely should be allowed. Sites like the internet archive exist to preserve internet data.

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Re:Ask HN: Will HN allow account and comment deletions? by mstolpm on Wednesday March 28, 2018 @03:30PM (#16701033)
If the 'right to be forgotten' is enforceable worldwide, it will be enforceable regarding the internet archive as well.
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Re:Ask HN: Will HN allow account and comment deletions? by matte_black on Wednesday March 28, 2018 @03:39PM (#16701119)
> No. It absolutely should be allowed. Sites like the internet archive exist to preserve internet data.

For now. But one day they'll come for those archives too.

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