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Will There Ever Be An "Internet Erase Button"?

Posted April 27, 2011 8:24 AM

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At the end of the film The Social Network, Mark Zuckerberg approaches the ex-girlfriend whom, earlier in the film, he had dragged through the mud online. He wasn't getting her back, of course. As she put it: "The Internet isn't written in pencil, Mark. It's written in ink." But what if that could change?

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04/27/2011 2:08 PM

I hope there is never "...An "Internet Erase Button". Anybody that can't keep their trap shut should get whatever they have coming to them. Especially Dave, that stinkin' lyin' no-good boozer that kicks his dogs and...

Boy, I sort of wish I hadn't said that... If only I could erase it.

Seriously, if there were an erase option, places like facebook would be very boring.

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04/27/2011 11:39 PM

...only within a 15-minute window, as in editing CR4 posts. (?)

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04/28/2011 1:10 AM

If every post that was put into print had a print a refraction choice.It might be easier for the angry people of wrong ways.ds

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04/28/2011 12:35 PM

No. Post carefully. Even on CR4, someone can grab your post before you go back to edit it, and it's out of your control. Forever.
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