I completely agree. I just don't see how there can be any realistic expectation of privacy when publishing something publicly.

I appreciate the idea of laws establishing a right to be forgotten and I think there's still some value in being able to take your data away from certain companies, but there's no guarantee it wasn't copied many times before the original location is taken down.

The Fediverse works like email. Once somebody hits send, there's no real way to claw that back.