-------------------------------------------- Archival vs. RTBF 2019.10.28 20:41:17 CET -------------------------------------------- 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-individu [1] gopher://zaibatsu.circumlunar.space/0/%7eyargo/clog/xu-gopher-archive-c