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user-inactivated  ·  3351 days ago  ·  link  ·    ·  parent  ·  post: Do we want a permanent web?

    We shouldn't hold back because people will be idiots. We don't ban cars because cars can kill people.

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.