I'm trying not to have serious opinions about copyright online right now because there are so, so many more important things going on But I really feel like a lot of people I felt like I was on the same *emotional* page about this stuff I really wasn't, and that's interesting
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I dunno, man, all the cool digirati people dunk on the EU's "right to be forgotten" -- which, sure, is a crappy sloppily written law that doesn't accomplish that much -- but their total lack of empathy for the concept really disturbs me on a visceral level
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You know what I find comforting? That there's a fic I really liked a long time ago, and when I looked on AO3, the author had deleted their account and the fic was completely gone And it wasn't popular enough for anyone to archive it anywhere, it's vapor, vanished
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I have no idea why, and I have no idea how to get in touch with the author Maybe they were embarrassed by having written smutty fanfic, or maybe they were more embarrassed by all the "serious" plotty stuff that overtook the smut, by how invested their past self was in this crap
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Maybe it was fandom drama, maybe it was to spite a specific person, maybe they converted to fundie Christianity and they felt obligated to nuke it I dunno It doesn't matter It doesn't exist anymore, as far as I know, but in my head, where it will slowly degrade
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AND THAT'S AWESOME I don't have the RIGHT to a copy of it if the author doesn't want me to have it The author wanted this piece of their life vanished as though it never happened and THEY SUCCEEDED, which in our world is incredibly rare and difficult, it's like a miracle
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People on the Internet ALL THE TIME try to erode this superpower, this gift, this blessing of having something you did be forgotten as though it never happened, and they think they're doing the author a favor "Anyone happen to have a cached copy of this? Please please PLEEASE"
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I used to be that person all the time It just really struck me how different my attitude is now This author wanted to be forgotten, and if I actually give a damn about them as a person, I will immediately get to work forgetting them and move on with my life
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Even stuff like me telling you right now what it was about, or trying to reconstruct it from my memory -- which, not to brag, I'm pretty sure I'm capable of doing -- would be shitty of me Like, obviously I have the *legal right* to do it, but it's not a nice thing to do
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