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Where data is used for personal gain and harming others, I agree with you

With that being said, having the ability to archive information so that it may be accessed in the future for whatever that need may be (I'm not talking about xivg specifically, that's a completely different problem) is something that should be looked into so that trends can be analyzed, claims can be backed up with information, mistakes can be learned from.

There's a difference between data hoarding and anonymizing it for usage, and data scalping for personal gain or harm. I understand where, in the context of xivg, the archive of images Jill made for a personal project got misused, but at the same time I found old screenshots in that archive I thought lost to time because of it. Does that balance out the harm done from someone elses misuse? No, absolutely not

There is no harm in keeping the information, there is always potential harm in using it. Misinformation is ripe on the internet in the modern era, and archiving is a good way of fighting heresay.
Not that this idea works with the f-list post, mind, but it's more my stance on data collection in general

Companies harvesting my data to sell to advertisers can eat shit and die though.