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Do you think most people who post publicly on the internet would agree if asked? I think most people would like to have a choice to make old stuff disappear. If
by netrus 5y ago
Do you think most people who post publicly on the internet would agree if asked? I think most people would like to have a choice to make old stuff disappear. If most people think so, THAT should be the rule. You might not like that and argue that there is no way to enforce it, but that does not mean it is a good rule to assume consent.
- ghaff 5y agoThere are two things: 1.) Most people won't opt-in because a significant majority accept defaults and don't opt into most things. 2.) For people like yourself probing a bit deeper, you might well ask whether you really want to give up your ability to decide you don't want something you thought was so funny when you wrote it at 20 now that you're a politician running for office or up for a political appointment.
- kodah 5y agoI mean even honoring the opt-out of robots.txt would be fantastic. As another commenter pointed out they willfully ignore it: https://blog.archive.org/2017/04/17/robots-txt-meant-for-search-engines-dont-work-well-for-web-archives/ https://blog.archive.org/2017/04/17/robots-txt-meant-for-sea... It's fairly unethical.
- BeFlatXIII 5y agoHow about this? Archives will still exist regardless of consent. Does that makes them digital rapists?