When the backlash happens, it's often already too late. But people are aware something was gone, that's why there is a backlash.
I know this because it happened in the past with the Cultural Revolution. Not saying it will happen in the same way here.
Maybe the only backlash we'll ever get is against my stupid comments. Lol.
When we look at the actual current US sociopolitical climate, we see that people don't actually care about either of those things. Quite the opposite, they are more than happy to burn books.
So what we can expect instead is that they'll care even less about a bunch of folks hitting the delete keys that wipe out several generations worth of historical record because it happens to be digital. If anything, they'll cheer about it.
Excuse me? Since when is shooting kids _just shy of_ deleting data. And no the rest of your comment doesn't pull that argument together.
Whether it's information deletion or human deletion, you can't undo the damage you're doing, so what the hell are you talking about when you pretend it's something to consider?