I don’t care. Lots of people have published things that they wish they hadn’t. That doesn’t give them the right to demand that every book or newspaper or magazine issue that carried those undesirable words be destroyed.
I’m not railing against Scott here; he does have the right to remove things off of his LiveJournal. I’m railing against the nature of the Internet, that makes “de-publishing” not only possible, but easy.
I don’t care. Lots of people have published things that they wish they hadn’t. That doesn’t give them the right to demand that every book or newspaper or magazine issue that carried those undesirable words be destroyed.
I’m not railing against Scott here; he does have the right to remove things off of his LiveJournal. I’m railing against the nature of the Internet, that makes “de-publishing” not only possible, but easy.