[bigiain]

> Destroying information now is expressing 100% confidence that nobody will have use for it later.

Or an acknowledgement that it might have the capability to be used against you later.

Would you be happy for every word you ever said, in public or private, to be recorded and transcribed and searchable just in case it becomes an "important source to historians", or just as likely "an important source of parallel reconstruction data for $yourCountry{'nsaEquivalent'}"???

We never got a record of Pepy's bar discussions, only what he chose to record in his diary. I'm not sure we need my Signal messages stored for posterity either. Read my blog or Reddit posts, other stuff was intended and should stay private.

There's a good reason a bunch of interesting bars banned Glassholes...

[wpietri]

Sure! Don't store them if you don't want to. I'm not sure how you take me as saying we should live in some sort of totalitarian fantasy you have constructed. I'm trying to help somebody understand why other people want to voluntarily save things.