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Good. It’s important that free access not be permitted. We don’t know what personal data might be contained within. We should only allow those works after a human (appropriately certified) has verified that no personal data exists within.

If it exists within the book must be destroyed in its entirety. Too many works of so-called scholarship have relied on the personal letters of dead people.

We should not reward grave robbing. The most important thing is the personal data. We must protect the personal data.



> We don’t know what personal data might be contained within

You really think that a book author doesn't know that whatever they put on a book will stay there forever?

What a weird take :p


They could have put other people’s personal data in. The only thing that matters is personal data. We have a right to making sure it’s removed. Once these massive privacy risks are dealt with we can start again. But only after we have a comprehensive report of the environmental consequences of this.

We’ve all had enough of people just stomping over our rights in this move fast and break things / ask forgiveness instead of permission crap.

Do it right. And respectfully instead of abusing people’s data.




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