Yes. We shouldn't hold back because people will be idiots. We don't ban cars because cars can kill people. People are people. This will never happen, outside of "this person was a kid". What needs to remain is that the web, and all posts on it, should be under pseudonyms.Is a permanent web worth it if the price is a person's shame and embarrassment following them for the rest of their life?
Or maybe it would lead to greater societal acceptance that people say and do and post dumb things
But we do enact laws on their usage and safety standards they must meet. Ease of publishing content, searching that content, and keeping it around for longer are all awesome things for a variety of reasons, but I wonder about the effect that it may have on people who have trouble escaping something dumb they did or said once. No doubt it's already easy to publish and search things with today's web, so I'm curious the effect it'll have when it's even easier. Regardless, I agree that we shouldn't hold back technological progress because of this.We shouldn't hold back because people will be idiots. We don't ban cars because cars can kill people.