A Thread about Internet Archive's “Silent Killer”

Re:A Thread about Internet Archive's “Silent Killer” by RonanTheGrey on Thursday December 12, 2019 @11:49AM (#21773490)

It is appalling to me that the parent comment is being downvoted. Religious fervor indeed. The point being made is simply that saving every scrap of history including personal tracking and details that are normally LOST to history, is a sea-change in human history and shouldn't be looked at lightly.

There is value in forgetting. What we forget, then is a very relevant question. "NEVER FORGET ANYTHING RAWR!" is not a useful point of view because it denies the very right to have a conversation on the subject.

If you can't agree that I should have some say in what is remembered (or at least archived) about me or generated by me, there's not much we can talk about.

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Re:A Thread about Internet Archive's “Silent Killer” by SkyBelow on Monday December 16, 2019 @09:58AM (#21803411)

It is also a matter of consent.

And to make it even clearer, one just needs to think about leaked images. Should we not allow a person to delete such images leaked without their consent?

1,000 years from now archaeologist may have some academic interest and those involved and even generations of their descendants are long dead.

But what about 1 year from now? Benefiting those 1000 years from now as the cost of those alive today is a hard position to justify, especially with such a blanket justification.

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