AW: [governance] how to un-digg?

[Kleinwächter, Wolfgang]

Good question, Adam. 
 
I am affraid only little can be done. 
 
There is a UN Convention from 1954 about the right to correction, entered into force in 1961. 
http://www1.umn.edu/humanrts/instree/u1circ.htm
 
But experiences with this convention (for clear defined "mass media") are discouraging. You can have things settled probably only in national contexts, mainly via courts. If somebody hurts somebodies interest/dignity she/he can be punished (mainly by paying several hundred thousands of EUR or so). But there will be no cyberpolice which will correct all the bad and wrong and dirty information (about issues, yourself or the hell). 
 
Probably you enter into a discussion with the Chinese friends who proposed the "World Internet Norm" in Rio de Janeiro which includes the development of an unsprecified mechanism to remove "bad information" so that we will have a "healthy Internet".  . 
 
Another issue is the "right to forget". Probably something could be done by having a protocol for expiration. Great challenge. But techically you could include into video uploadsoftware an expiration code which would remove the file automatically after a certain period. But this is no guarantetee to have thousands of private copies which could be easily substitute the expired and removed original.
 
Anyhiw, good question for a IGF workshop.
 
Wolfgang   
 

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Von: Adam Peake [mailto:ajp at glocom.ac.jp]
Gesendet: Di 20.05.2008 18:10
An: governance at lists.cpsr.org
Betreff: [governance] how to un-digg?



Does anyone know how to "un-digg" something.

Say someone writes an article for a major newspaper about a report
you wrote and the article got a number of key facts wrong.  But
people are digg'ing the article and therefore linking and
perpetuating the misinformation.

Not suggesting any type of censorship, more a right of response/correction.

Someone raised a related kind of issue during the Rio IGF -- how do
we teach the Internet how to forget (or do we need the Internet to
learn how to forget?)

Thoughts?

Thanks,

Adam
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