Maidsafe never had not a consistent view on data deletion, going from one extreme to the other throughout the years.
A brief recap of history:
- Initially an SD could be deleted but everyone would know that the SD existed and was deleted and if someone recreated it then its version was incremented. This was IMO a reasonable implementation.
- At one time Maidsafe made an evolution that removed these controls and an SD could be deleted by removing it from the network. It could be then recreated at version 0 by anyone. This was what I would qualify as an extreme implementation were anybody is free to do what they want of their data, including completely rewriting history.
- I had a hard time to convince Maidsafe to go back to initial implementation, see these 2 long threads: unsuccessful one Deletion of SD objects and then successful one Transparency or opacity of SD modifications.
- Current MD implementation is the reasonable initial one at the entry level (an entry can be deleted but everyone knows that, and history cannot be rewritten).
- What is proposed now is another extreme implementation were data cannot be deleted at all by users. This ensure that not only history cannot be rewritten but also cannot be erased. The price is less freedom for users.
To politicize Maidsafe position on this specific problem (data deletion) I would say the evolution is: center party -> right wing -> center party -> left wing.
This may be the right thing to do, but in the past Maidsafe was arguing against it and now they are going even further than what I proposed. This has been a big waste of time.