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by miki123211 944 days ago
Keep in mind that the website author has the ability to delete content from archive.org (and I've seen a pretty significant website for a community I'm a part of do so when it shut down, ostensibly for "GDPR compliance" reasons.)

All it takes is a robot.txt file with the right entries in it.

We need something like archive.org, but which reflects the wishes of historians and preservationists, not paranoid website owners.

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Do we need that? I feel like the right to be forgotten needs to be protected too. I’m already uncomfortable with the extent to which everything I write can live forever
Which is why your alias is wisely zztop44 and not JamesWilliamsPattersonChicago84.
The right to be forgotten is a very recent invention and very much not universally agreed upon.