US newspapers are deleting old crime stories, offering subjects a 'clean slate'

Re:US newspapers are deleting old crime stories, offering su... by wizzwizz4 on Sunday January 05, 2025 @07:06AM (#42601256)

Is this the Flashback thread? https://www.flashback.org/t1803341 Also, I (belatedly) noticed that the contemporary Wikipedia discussion was archived: https://sv.wikipedia.org/wiki/Diskussion:Jacques_Wallner/Ark... This is enough for me to believe that, at the very least, people in 2012 believed that this happened.

To continue the discussion about court judgements being public: sometimes that is not in the best interests of the victims. (I don't know how it works in Sweden, but I've heard of court records being sealed for that purpose.)

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Re:US newspapers are deleting old crime stories, offering su... by impossiblefork on Sunday January 05, 2025 @07:40AM (#42601391)

Yes, that is the flashback thread.

Yes, it would obviously be against victim interest in some cases. However, since I see courts as I do-- i.e. as people going before the public and laying out something which is intolerable, I feel that incomplete alignment with victim interests is something one must accept.

Instead my view is that the public must become accustomed to that is is a court, and to behave reasonably with regard to those who have brought cases to them.

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