“The internet never forgets”— has there ever been when something was taken down from the internet? And people who had access to it lost it?
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“The internet never forgets”— has there ever been when something was taken down from the internet? And people who had access to it lost it?
No, it is not possible to scrub something from the internet. Even if you delete something from your own account, it may still exist elsewhere on other accounts or websites that have captured screenshots and video clips of the deleted content before they were removed. You’d have to visit and delete all copies on every visitor computer. Plus on every server on network that keeps copies and back up copies.
You can only delete information from a server that you own. You can’t delete information from a server that someone else owns. Once you put something out there, it can and probably will be mirrored and copied. Even if you have the ability to delete the original, there could be a thousand copies of it by the time you do that. The Internet never forgets. Think before you post, because if you think better of it later, it may well be too late.