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Perhaps the Internet Archive could do more to help people who find their personal/sensitive/embarrassing content made available in perpetuity (I’m not sure exac
by jl6 5y ago
Perhaps the Internet Archive could do more to help people who find their personal/sensitive/embarrassing content made available in perpetuity (I’m not sure exactly what they could do), but it’s incredibly valuable to have archiving on by default. The voice of un-notable people is underrepresented in every field of study, and the voice of notable people tends to get preserved in other ways anyway.
- jjkaczor 5y agoIt is helpful to get the perspectives of "un-notable" people from a historical perspective. For example - the graffiti at Pompeii is interesting (and is pretty much at the same "quality bar" as Twitter): https://www.theatlantic.com/technology/archive/2016/03/adrienne-was-here/475719/ https://www.theatlantic.com/technology/archive/2016/03/adrie... https://kashgar.com.au/blogs/history/the-bawdy-graffiti-of-pompeii-and-herculaneu https://kashgar.com.au/blogs/history/the-bawdy-graffiti-of-p...