Re:Removing Your Site from the Wayback Machine
by tannhaeuser on Wednesday June 12, 2019 @03:06AM
(#20162411)
I personally find a "right ro be forgotten" as such laughable, but I understand it was specifically introduced not to expose something stupid you did or said, or a non-advantageous photo taken from you or similar as your only public record in times of clickbait and staged polarizing crap. Then there's the problem of copyrighted material, and of publishing stuff on your site with the intent of making money off your user's attention via ads, one of the very few avenues of financing content creation. All these concerns have to be balanced against another, which creates a difficult legal environment for archival sites.
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Re:Removing Your Site from the Wayback Machine
by Fnoord on Wednesday June 12, 2019 @03:44AM
(#20162552)
Think of all the things you did as teenager or child. Now think of all these things as being documented on the internet. Do we really want to be haunted by our past in such a way?
Re:Removing Your Site from the Wayback Machine
by rootlocus on Wednesday June 12, 2019 @09:52AM
(#20164594)
Yes, we all agree children and teenagers do stupid shit. Since we all acknowledge it, can we be mature about it and not "haunt" people with it?
Re:Removing Your Site from the Wayback Machine
by Fnoord on Wednesday June 12, 2019 @09:58AM
(#20164667)
Easy to say as a bystander. What if its you kid who's being bullied or who got bullied? What are you gonna do about it? My other post in this thread addresses that point [1]
Re:Removing Your Site from the Wayback Machine
by rootlocus on Wednesday June 12, 2019 @10:30AM
(#20165016)
I'm sorry, but these kind of straw men are making discussions on the subject impossible. I argued that we shouldn't judge adults based on the stupid things they did as children.
> Do we really want to be haunted by our past in such a way?
To which my reply was: let's be mature about it and not care about trivialities from someone's past.
Now you change the subject to: "What if its you kid who's being bullied or who got bullied?". My kid being bullied "right now" is not the same as "my kid did some stupid shit 10 years ago and people are making fun of him now because of it". This is another problem with another solution, and it's not something I argued about.