[governance] how to un-digg?

[William Drake]

Adam,

Whatever misinfo you're dealing with, I think I may have you beat.  A couple
years ago I was invited to Madrid to give a speech to Telefonica Foundation,
which arranged a couple press interviews afterwards.  Among other things, I
explained that some developing country governments had been pushing for ITU
to play a leading role in IG, and also that the UN was setting up the IGF,
which I said was a good thing.  I asked, as I usually do, that they send me
the text first before running it, but in my experience journalists usually
can't be bothered to do that.   Couple weeks later, an article comes out
that appears to conflate the two points and has me saying, according to
Google translation, that  the UN should be the locus of IG decision making
rather than just IGF dialogue, with the lovely title, "the UN should
centralize Internet governance."  Don't know if the problem was language or
editorial sexing up, but I wrote to the journalist and to the paper saying
you've completely mangled what I said and got no response, so there it
remains on the web...

Best,

Bill


On 5/20/08 6:18 PM, "Jacqueline A. Morris" <jam at jacquelinemorris.com> wrote:

> If the major newspaper corrected the minsinformation, the dugg link
> should be to the newspaper's website's corrected page, as the newspaper
> should not leave up the page with the  incorrect information. It would
> only then be in caches like Google's and that can get cleared up
> relatively soon when the new corrected article is cached.
> However, if the major newspaper did NOT correct the article, I dunno! If
> you can't get the original fixed.... hmmmm
> Jacqueline
> 
> 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.
>> 
>> 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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