“We survived, but it wiped out the library,” Internet Archive’s founder says.

  • CookieOfFortune@lemmy.world
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    1 day ago

    Because things can be posted about other people without their consent. Things like revenge porn, the location of air defenses, etc.

    I think it’s something that is currently being figured out in various legal systems around the world.

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      1 day ago

      I agree, those are examples of things that should be able to be deleted from an archive. In my mind those are different issues than just the archive though, and we should probably have laws in place ensuring that content like that can be removed from anywhere on the Internet.

      But it really seems like you’re arguing that “some content shouldn’t be archived forever”, not that “an archive must receive consent before recording public Internet data.”