[tegling]

How can we solve this if we don't defer this to laziness but try to address it as a very real cost for the owner of the site in terms of

- Brand damage (content), e.g. Cancel culture, etc when old articles are discovered later or seen in new light - Brand damage (privacy/user base), e.g. Assumed to protect identity of all old users, risk of exposing secrets, offering old user-generated content as training data to ML not wanted - IT security, potential attack surface or exposes info to use when designing attacks - Lawsuits (content), e.g copyright/DMCA or content that is deemed illegal/not properly licensed

I guess the list could be made longer.

[user_7832]

> Brand damage (content), e.g. Cancel culture, etc when old articles are discovered later or seen in new light

I have yet to see any major such instances, especially to brands. PR firms can do quite a lot for the right money.

The general “victims” I have seen are individuals post varying criminal charges (eg R Kelly).