Brewster Kahle, anyway, clearly falls into that category Like he read Vernor Vinge's Rainbows End and saw the idea of the entirety of all human cultural production in the pre-digital era being stored in a single metal block as exciting and invigorating rather than nauseating
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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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Replying to @arthur_affect
I'm in a different mindset about the Internet Archive than... basically anyone. I think the Wayback Machine is harmful for the reasons you suggest, but the other stuff, where they're preserving stuff like music, books, and films, is invaluable.
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I think when it comes to ordinary webpages so much stuff is lost by accident from falling through the cracks that something like Wayback Machine is overall a major positive good But that it should be way easier to send a takedown request to http://web.archive.org than it is
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My old LiveJournal is still on it, which I very much did take down on purpose Which isn't that big a deal because for people who give a shit about my writings in 2006 that horse was long out of the barn But I still find it very annoying
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Even by LiveJournal's own TOS, I own the copyright to my old LJ, not LiveJournal, Inc or any of their successors, but I can't prove I'm the person who wrote it so my request falls on deaf ears But there isn't even a process toward proving it, despite it being under my real name
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