&gt;I generally believe that people should be able to delete what they put online<p>I might get some flak for this, but I think the opposite. I think when someone posts something online, it should remain online forever. It&#x27;s a tragedy that information ever gets deleted. The fact that someone could publish something thousands or even millions of people enjoy and then take it away from them is a shame. Even if it&#x27;s something only a handful of people enjoy.<p>Even in cases of blatant slander, I don&#x27;t think censorship or deletion is ever justifiable. In cases of proven slander&#x2F;libel, some sort of bright red notice should be placed above and below the content indicating a court found it to be false and libelous.<p>People do make mistakes, but I think it&#x27;s better for information to always be &quot;append-only&quot;. If I had some old embarrassing blog posts, I wouldn&#x27;t delete them, but rather add a warning or disclaimer that I no longer hold those views and regret making that post.<p>I have a <i>lot</i> of embarrassing things about me on the Internet that I wouldn&#x27;t want an employer to find, from when I was much younger, but which they can find through careful Googling. I just have to accept those things happened, and to try and make a case for why these were mistakes from when I was a teenager and not how I am today.<p>I totally support archives and web scraping, and am appalled by the EU&#x27;s &quot;right to be forgotten&quot; ruling.