Update: Ok, you guys and gals. Thanks for commenting. I still believe I should have the right to delete comments and you still think I should not, and that's the end of it. :-) The arguments brought forward by most of you don't convince me. But I will live with it. I can't promise to Adam B and some others that I will think more before I write a comment in the future. But don't worry, you can HR it and that's it. And if I get too much on your nerves, there is always this skull and bones thingy that you can dump on my head. I mean, if I am dead, that's how I look anyway, so why would I bother. Behave better than me. OK ?
Hundreds of thousands of comments, all searchable, if needed be, are the base of profits made through advertisements.
As can be seen, everything you ever said in comments, can not be forgotten. It is available for decades for anyone to poke in your comment and diary history. This situation has never been made available to a world-wide audience, before online technology made it possible.
As this site's diary writing and commenting proves in clear terms, if it comes to political (and even personal) comments or diaries, anything a person said twenty years or more ago, can be pulled out of the closet, presented and used to bash, slam, extort or exploit by other writers, it also can be used to make people addicted or happy, offer "friendship" and "healing help". I consider both a fallacy.
That is not right.
I am sick and tired reading the diaries (especially the "political" primary campaign related ones) and their comment threads.
I own my words. Ironically not a long time ago, someone asked me "to own my words", which I would gladly do for real. Therefore I should be able to pull them off public display and searchable databases. If Markos' site owns my words and doesn't change his policies, I intend to fight for my rights to own my own comments and do with them whatever I consider appropriate.
My words may be the most irrelevant and ridiculous ones ever uttered, but they still belong to me. In real life my words would be forgotten and known just by few persons I decided to talk to. Spoken words, not recorded, would be forgotten. Here I talk to a world-wide audience (voluntarily), but I can't own my words, because I am not allowed to erase the record my comments left behind. My relations to this site are the same as a soldier who has the right to be a conscientious objector. In this case the right should be expressed in permitting posters to own their words and to erase them.
Deal with it. We do have a right to be forgotten and comments and diaries written and posted here for free and voluntarily don't include the right for the blogsite's owner and servers to own them for eternity or deny the right to erase them. If posters want to be never forgotten and publish here, they should pay a little fee to do so and that's it. If you do want to have the right to be forgotten, demand the right to erase your records or account or individual comments and diaries.
Rest well in dailykos databases - without my comments.