http://blog.cira.ca/2010/01/happy-new-year/ Byron Holland's Perspectives on the Internet and Domain Space. Fri, 10 Feb 2012 17:31:55 -0500 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.8.4 hourly 1 http://blog.cira.ca/2010/01/happy-new-year/comment-page-1/#comment-79 bshell Tue, 05 Jan 2010 20:01:49 +0000 http://blog.cira.ca/?p=267#comment-79 Here's one of the first unexpected Internet stories of 2010: The Web Suicide Machine. If you want to remove all your online identities go here: http://suicidemachine.org/. It's fascinating that the service is causing such a controversy. For instance, after about 50,000 people signed up to be permanently erased, Facebook has blocked the Suicide Machine, kind of like the computer HAL in 2001 preventing Dave from unplugging it. Can you erase your digital self? Here’s one of the first unexpected Internet stories of 2010: The Web Suicide Machine. If you want to remove all your online identities go here: http://suicidemachine.org/. It’s fascinating that the service is causing such a controversy. For instance, after about 50,000 people signed up to be permanently erased, Facebook has blocked the Suicide Machine, kind of like the computer HAL in 2001 preventing Dave from unplugging it. Can you erase your digital self?

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