Digital Permanence

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Once you share something, you can’t unshare it, the internet feels intractable. What do we lose when we lose deletion?

Once you share something, you can’t unshare it, the internet feels intractable. What do we lose when we lose deletion ? Related: right to be forgotten , ephemereal content The Internet is a collective hallucination Source: The Internet Is Rotting in The Atlantic “Of course, there’s a keenly related problem of permanency for much of what’s online. People communicate in ways that feel ephemeral and let their guard down commensurately, only to find that a Facebook comment can stick around forever. The upshot is the worst of both worlds: Some information sticks around when it shouldn’t, while othe

Digital Permanence

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