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Maybe It Should Be Illegal To Instantly Delete A Website's Archives - Aftermath (aftermath.site)
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[โ€“] [email protected] 3 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago) (1 children)

Information doesn't have "owners." It only has -- at most -- "copyright holders," who are being allowed to temporarily borrow control of it from the Public Domain.

[โ€“] [email protected] 3 points 2 months ago

Imagine that absolute historical clusterfuck if terrible politicians and bad actors could just delete entire portions of their history.