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No implicit agreement to privacy can exist on the internet. Once you click publish, its archived. I wanted to read what the author wrote. https://web.archive.

• zekrioca 4y ago
  It depends. The author should also have the Right to be forgotten, which applies to some jurisdictions, specially in this situation that the matter may have not been set. But I still disagree with you not respecting the author's implicit wish. For instance, thanks to the various similar links like the one you just sent, I can pin-point exactly who the person in question is. How can you guarantee the information will not be used against the person? I'm not sure if this is on your ethical framework to consider, but that's where I see the fundamental disagreement. You could have privately read the text (because you know how to access it), while not posting the text per-se here, and you could even comment something insightful about it. It is more about the anthropological aspect of it, the respect of privacy, not about the technical aspects of the public town-square that the Internet is. Clearly the author did not know any of these either, nor about what a PhD actually entails. But still, these are mistakes that can be part of someone's life.
  • tomatowurst 4y ago
    Are you blaming me that archive.org crawls the web and makes archives?
    • zekrioca 4y ago
      No, I'm just inferring your ethical framework for this specific situation. Shedding more light into a matter that is not settled yet is not appropriate at this time, specially because the author is the vulnerable person in question.
      • tomatowurst 4y ago
        and you know this because you've spoken to the author?
        • zekrioca 4y ago
          No, but there is a (public) status of the PhD position.