If someone posts something bad, and people demand that it be deleted, I view that as analogous to demanding the destruction of police body-cam footage
I think this analogy is stretched beyond usefulnesss—there’s a very wide gap between “removal of publishing” and “deletion of legal evidence”. There’s a LARGE class of body-cam footage that never gets made public, but is not irrevocably deleted. Private website operators also have very different duty and liability shapes than police departments do.
I think this analogy is stretched beyond usefulnesss—there’s a very wide gap between “removal of publishing” and “deletion of legal evidence”. There’s a LARGE class of body-cam footage that never gets made public, but is not irrevocably deleted. Private website operators also have very different duty and liability shapes than police departments do.
It’s not as bad, quantitatively speaking, but it’s the same kind of bad; both are steps to prevent incriminating information from being seen.