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Censorship does not apply to "published work" only. You can censor historical facts, like the fact that Mr. X did Y 5 years ago. Should people be able to find

Censorship does not apply to "published work" only. You can censor historical facts, like the fact that Mr. X did Y 5 years ago. Should people be able to find out about that if the information was available digitally? I think so. I don't see how it's different from: if it's in a book somewhere I have the right to find and read it. Surely, the amount of effort required to know the facts does not qualify my right to know the facts?

Dylan16807 7y ago
> I don't see how it's different from: if it's in a book somewhere I have the right to find and read it. But you don't have that. Even if it's published, copyright can interfere. If it's not published, you very much don't have that right. There is no general-purpose right to know things about people. It's by default fine if you find someone that wants to tell you something. But that doesn't itself make it okay to collate a database of information about millions of people.