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Poof! You’re Unpublished.
- aupajo 18y agoOne of the things so many people forget is that large parts of the internet are archived. It's not as easy as you think to remove something from the net. Just removed some content? So what? I can find it on Google cache. Removed content a year ago? I'll find you on the Wayback Machine! And that's before you get into syndication with other sites, bots, etc...
- cstejerean 18y agoBoth Google and the Internet Archive will remove cached content if asked (which I think is terrible but I guess this is their only way to avoid copyright infringement problems).
- rms 18y agoThe controversy on boingboing existed because they refused to say why they removed the link. I don't think the secret is that evil -- I strongly suspect it was done to placate advertisers in general. Advertisers don't like links to porn. Boingboing makes an enormous amount of money so they want to keep advertiseres happy. They should have just said so instead of keeping it a secret. At least I'm hoping it was that reason and not because of a personal feud Xeni had. I've thought about installing a no-Xeni greasemonkey script but she does post some good things...
- jrockway 18y agoHeh, I knew from the title that this was going to be about Boing Boing. I'm not sure how that reflects on the article, but I think it's something like "this is not a widespread problem, only some fanbois complaining about a semi-obscure blog."