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In a message of Wed, 21 Oct 2015 00:09:18 +1100, "Steven D'Aprano" writes:
>On Tue, 20 Oct 2015 03:28 am, Laura Creighton wrote:
>
>> Actually, this one was part of a huge set of defaming articles sent a
>> year ago we were requested to remove, and did.  European Law may
>> require us to do so.  I checked, and this article wasn't one on
>> our list, which is why we missed this one.

>Today we're removing allegedly defaming posts because European law may or
>may not apply (probably doesn't); tomorrow we're removing posts because
>they fall foul of unreasonable laws anywhere in the world.

No, we are removing them because we want to.  

>The point is, obeying laws that don't apply, even if well-meaning, opens us
>to a dangerous precedent that we shouldn't go near.

Pointedly not doing something you want to because it might make us
obedient to some law we don't have to obey seems a matter of
cutting off ones nose to spite one's face.

>There's another reason to try very, very hard to avoid deleting archived
>posts: until such time as python.org moves to Mailman3, deleting a single
>posts breaks the permalinks for *every single post* for the entire month.

No, I think we were smarter than that in the script.

>Steven

Laura