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List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Errors-To: guix-devel-bounces+larch=yhetil.org@gnu.org Sender: guix-devel-bounces+larch=yhetil.org@gnu.org X-Migadu-Flow: FLOW_IN X-Migadu-Country: US X-Migadu-Scanner: mx10.migadu.com X-Migadu-Spam-Score: -9.70 X-Spam-Score: -9.70 X-Migadu-Queue-Id: F2A3227A25 X-TUID: qf34kAMwCGS5 > I was also distressed to see how poorly they treated a developer > who wished to update their name: > https://cohost.org/arborelia/post/4968198-the-software-heritag > https://cohost.org/arborelia/post/5052044-the-software-heritag let's put aside the trans aspect of this question for a moment, because thi= s question has broad implications, much broader than the regrettable strugg= les of trans people. the question here is whether person A has the right to demand that others c= hange their memory of A's past actions (i.e. rewrite history, or else becom= e a felon... or maybe just unwelcome in polite society?). so, let's just assume that i have decided to prefer being called a new name= (without disclosing my reasons). is it reasonable for me to demand from somebody else to change their memory= of my past actions? e.g. to demand that they rewrite their memory/instance= s of my books that i have published under my previous name in the past? or = that they forget my old name, and when the change happened? or that they do= not link the two names to the same individual? if so, then where is the line? what's the principle here? and what are its = implications? do i have the right to demand the replacement of a page in each copy that e= xists out there? i.e. should it be criminal (or just a sin?) to own old cop= ies? do i have the right to demand that certain libraries must sell/burn th= eir copies of my books and never own them again? what if i committed a fraud? e.g. i pushed a backdoor somewhere... do i hav= e the right to memory-hole my old identity? and who will enforce such a right? the government? i.e. those people who al= ready keep an (extralegal) record of whenever i farted in the past decade? = where can i even file my GDPR request for that? would that really be a "rig= ht to be forgotten", or merely a tool of even tighter monopolization of The= Central Database? what if i'm a joker and i demand a new change every week for the rest of my= life? do i have the right to the resources of every library out there? to = keep their staff and computers busy for the next couple of decades? but let's put the technical aspects aside; wherever we draw the line... wha= t are the implications of that for borader society? because i sure see some= actors out there who can hardly wait to start erasing certain records at t= he barrel of the law, including rewriting books of significance... (and whi= le we are at it, i suggest to start preserving your offline/local copies, b= ecause we're up to a wild ride!) humanity has reached an enormous challenge with the complete marginalizatio= n of the costs of storing and transmitting information. it's a completely n= ew/different playing field, and how we proceed from here has grave implicat= ions. this questions is nowhere near as obvious/trivial as presented in the= cited blog post. --=20 =E2=80=A2 attila lendvai =E2=80=A2 PGP: 963F 5D5F 45C7 DFCD 0A39 -- =E2=80=9CIt is only when compassion is present that people allow themselves= to see the truth. [=E2=80=A6] Compassion is a kind of healing agent that h= elps us tolerate the hurt of seeing the truth.=E2=80=9D =09=E2=80=94 A.H. Almaas (1944=E2=80=93), 'Elements of the Real in Man (Dia= mond Heart, Book 1)'