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Re:Sorry You Missed It – Inside Rockstar North Blog Shut Down by miki123211 on Thursday November 23, 2023 @08:09AM (#38392344)
Keep in mind that the website author has the ability to delete content from archive.org (and I've seen a pretty significant website for a community I'm a part of do so when it shut down, ostensibly for "GDPR compliance" reasons.)

All it takes is a robot.txt file with the right entries in it.

We need something like archive.org, but which reflects the wishes of historians and preservationists, not paranoid website owners.

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Re:Sorry You Missed It – Inside Rockstar North Blog Shut Down by zztop44 on Thursday November 23, 2023 @08:14AM (#38392398)
Do we need that? I feel like the right to be forgotten needs to be protected too. I’m already uncomfortable with the extent to which everything I write can live forever
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Re:Sorry You Missed It – Inside Rockstar North Blog Shut Down by somenameforme on Thursday November 23, 2023 @08:24AM (#38392477)
Which is why your alias is wisely zztop44 and not JamesWilliamsPattersonChicago84.
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Re:Sorry You Missed It – Inside Rockstar North Blog Shut Down by account42 on Thursday November 23, 2023 @10:51AM (#38394074)
The right to be forgotten is a very recent invention and very much not universally agreed upon.
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