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Archival vs. RTBF
2019.10.28 20:41:17 CET
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I've read some posts [0][1] recently discussing the idea of archival
of content and how it conflicts with one's right to remove their own
content from online services. It's hard to strike a balance here. I
myself support both positions, archiving content for posterity AND
the right to be forgotten.
How about letting the author set the archival setting for a
publication? For example, the archival tag might have one of the
following values:
* RESTRICTED: content must be removed if requested;
* PUBLIC: unrestricted archival;
* UNSET: content may be archived, but this could be changed in the
future.
Of course the hardest part is deciding whether changing the archival
tag from UNSET to something else *after archival is done* should
result in archive purges. This is the same balance courts are having
to find today when analyzing right to be forgotten requests. In any
case, derivative works should not be impacted by right to be
forgotten requests.
Maybe I'm overthinking this... I am very sleepy after all...
[0] gopher://zaibatsu.circumlunar.space:70/0/~solderpunk/phlog/the-individual-a
[1] gopher://zaibatsu.circumlunar.space/0/%7eyargo/clog/xu-gopher-archive-civil