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Then it still makes no sense, as you being unable to take down the content means you also very likely can’t edit the content. I can’t think of a situation where you:
Need content to not be scraped
Need time to remove/edit that content
Have access to do the above
Don’t have access to pull the content immediately
Have control of a large enough botnet to take down Internet Archive
Don’t have a big enough botnet to take down the aforementioned content
On an individual level, having a massive archive of everything you’ve ever posted isn’t always a good thing, especially when mentally ill people will quote mine a single post and then try to misuse it.
Then it still makes no sense, as you being unable to take down the content means you also very likely can’t edit the content. I can’t think of a situation where you:
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On an individual level, having a massive archive of everything you’ve ever posted isn’t always a good thing, especially when mentally ill people will quote mine a single post and then try to misuse it.