Re:Google seeks to limit ‘right to be forgotten’ by claiming...
by zeth___ on Friday April 06, 2018 @07:02PM
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>The web should be considered WRITE ONLY. We should NOT remove content.
It isn't and it has never been.
Given that different countries have different laws and yet all claim to universal application of their laws can you imagine how many people would be killed because of this?
Atheists taken off planes form Arab Emirates flights because they posted about god. Homosexual activists getting assassinated by Russia. Europeans being arrested in the US because of the difference in age of consent.
The web is ephemeral and should be anonymous.
Re:Google seeks to limit ‘right to be forgotten’ by claiming...
by paulie_a on Friday April 06, 2018 @08:17PM
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The web has and never will be anonymous, things might disappear due to lack of interest. But you just can't unring the bell either.
Re:Google seeks to limit ‘right to be forgotten’ by claiming...
by losteric on Friday April 06, 2018 @07:00PM
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"the web" ... all of it? That seems impratical.
Immutable data structures have their place in programming, and immutable communication has it's place in society, but neither are appropriate for all use-cases.
However, that doesn't mean that annotating content or making it more clear that a different (Firstname Lastname) did something might be a better response. For example, I have never created an account on facebook, linkedin, twitter, etc. I refuse to give any one company a defacto monopoly over social discourse and interaction; those tools belong on OPEN, FREE (libre+beer), well defined minimum interoperable standard platforms. Currently that's email; it really sucks, but the standard is well defined, anyone /can/ implement it without barriers, and everyone is forced to federate to at least some degree.