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Conversely, imagine you were abused several years ago, and the police dropped the case through incompetence, etc. Would you want information regarding your abus
by Sanddancer 12y ago
Conversely, imagine you were abused several years ago, and the police dropped the case through incompetence, etc. Would you want information regarding your abuser to be disappeared because it's inconvenient? Being able to make information disappear very well could harm vulnerable people if they knew people in states of power could make uncomfortable facts go away.
- samastur 12y agoOf course not, but somebody not me would have no way of telling if the guy legally innocent really is or not. What it would come down to is his perception. It would be very easy for me as a white straight middle class guy to be OK with "eternal memory" since it is unlikely to do me much harm. However it doesn't exactly require a huge leap of imagination to think of all sorts of scenarios or groups of people who can't afford the same attitude. Hence I am not jumping to condemnation before I learn more.