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<p>It's a good one, here is a related one that talks about the
social effects:</p>
<p><a moz-do-not-send="true" href="https://www.socialcooling.com/">https://www.socialcooling.com/</a></p>
<p>To me, part of the problem is that online communications are
constantly creating a permanent record, like Snowden puts it. This
list, for example, should really be regarded as private, a
conversation with the liberation folks. But it's actually public
by virtue of having an eternal record of everything said here made
available on a discoverable part the Web. Any joke, criticism or
statement can then be taken out of context and copy-pasted
somewhere else; in the worst case, this results in a public
lynching of the author. The lack of privacy then leads to a
chilling effect, to self-censorship; every word must be carefully
measured, even the email address you send this from and other
metadata must be considered.<br>
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<p>On the other hand, if the mailing list record just
self-destructed after a while (Signal does this with messages),
then the problem would not be as bad. Copy-pasting something out
of context and lynching the author would now have to be a targeted
attack as opposed to something you can do retroactively any day
and any time. Most people would not bother unless you were a
high-profile target. The same arguments Snowden makes about the
NSA collecting a permanent record to then retroactively find crime
as opposed to looking for evidence for an existing investigation
apply to online social communication just as well.<br>
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<p>There is of course value in making the list publicly available to
build community, provide a learning resource and so on, so
automated self-destruction seems like a good balance and default
to me. Things become semi-private, or semi-public; words are
written on sand instead of stone.<br>
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