In this case, I think deleting the posts from his livejournal and making them only accessible via archive was an intentional choice by Scott, since he doesn’t endorse a large number of them anymore, and his old writing was often associated with his new writing in a way that caused him problems. Not confident of this though.
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.
In this case, I think deleting the posts from his livejournal and making them only accessible via archive was an intentional choice by Scott, since he doesn’t endorse a large number of them anymore, and his old writing was often associated with his new writing in a way that caused him problems. Not confident of this though.
I replaced the broken links with archive links in May 2019, so this shouldn’t be an issue for this list anymore.
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.