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Re:Richard M. Stallman resigns by ryandrake on Tuesday September 17, 2019 @03:51AM (#20992689)
You really do need to be extra careful about what you write, because everything gets archived forever. You're not only being judged against today's norms and taboos but against the unknown taboos of years from now. Things that were once no big deal are career-ending today. Things that are no big deal today may be career-ending tomorrow. I have no idea what's going to be politically correct in 2039. Similarly, if some of the things I said and thought 20 years ago were documented and searchable, I'd never be able to get a job today. Society's standards shift, but its memory doesn't.

Your best bet is to only ever express entirely uncontroversial vanilla opinions and hope even that is still acceptable in the decades to come.

Re:Richard M. Stallman resigns by cjslep on Tuesday September 17, 2019 @04:10AM (#20992812)
This is pure fearmongering.

If you truly feel this way, you can put money where your mouth is and do actions to remove your very own words from the digital world (because you own the copyright to them if in the US, under the GDPR in the EU).

Alternatively, you can support dismantling tools that build outrage mobs (Twitter) and be a proponent of good faith arguments with conduct becoming of earnest debate. Preventing the fearful future.

I hope you can see why I think lazily lamenting some imagined dystopic future makes me sincerely question the actual genuineness of the underlying fear, and the lack of evidence makes me question the rigor with which it was dreamed up.