I've just googled my name - Seems I'm a Doctor, an Author, an Artist, a Lawyer and a fundraiser, and I've died at least twice, and that's just in the first three pages of search results!
OK, I'm past 50 and I didn't put my youth online, so I have less to embarrass me.
The flip side of all this is that maybe the hypocrites out there will lose some of their influence, and society will become more tolerant. Previously the wealthy and unscrupulous have been able to dig up their opponent's follies, whilst keeping their own buried - now the playing field may be more level!
As for the folly of youth, anything particularly nasty will get on the public record through the legal system anyway if you're stupid enough to put it on social networking.
As for Ku Klux Klan membership etc., would you rather have a reformed "outed" ex Klanner in government, or an ex Klanner who can be blackmailed? Sometimes guilty consciences give rise to extraordinary moral character and real solutions.
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