[governance] how to un-digg?

[Robert Guerra]

Adam:


On 20-May-08, at 12:10 PM, Adam Peake wrote:

> 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.
>
As with any story that goes to the press - and published - with the  
facts wrong... not much usually you can do. You can add a correction  
to the thread on Digg, but the fact remains that the original  
reference is there.

An even if it can be corrected on digg, the original might make to the  
internet archive (archive.org) - and there, well, it's there forever...

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

it's problematic - one persons' correction could be another's censorship
>
>
> 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?)

As I don't think we want the leading libraries of the world to "forget/ 
erase" books, I would be - very cautious - with the global knowledge  
resource (aka. the internet) forgetting facts and thus changing  
history..


regards

Robert

Those who cannot remember the past, are condemned to repeat it..

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/George_Santayana
From: Reason in Common Sense, the first volume of his The Life of Reason
George Santayana -  philosopher, essayist, poet, and novelist.

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