Re: Rewrite?

I agree with what you say fledgling, often wondering how many other people spend time re-reading and re-writing their own posts just to correct some of the more glaring punctuation, grammar and spelling mistakes, after the fact (after the post has gone live to the forum). As far as this goes, there are probably few who re-write/re-edit posts more than I just for this purpoe.

When it comes to matters/threads that are actively being debated with lots of back and forth and input from two or more people, Erasure can really undo the entire thread. s far a serving the general purpose of a do over, and serving the needs of "I'm still kinda new at this, I may have blabbed too much, can you help me wipe it all out and start fresh", this is understandable as it pertains to privacy, but I'm still sort of lukewarm on the erasure thing. Privacy issues are important to each of us in our own ways, but "privacy" is to a large extent a hotbutton because it has been hyped and made into this for us by the establishment, the very same establishment that in many cases are the same ones already in control of the information that details each of our lives from the moment our parents signed an appl for Birth Certificate and SS# on our behlf. I'm human, I tend to forget things about myself, especially now that I'm into middle age. Anyone think government computers forget our life's details after they've been keyed in? All it takes is for somebody to have a reason to type in an inquiry and they can call up a lot more about our lives than most of us can remember off the tops of our heads, and they are trhe same ones brutally and repeatedly violating common people's privacy on numerous nefarious fronts every damn day of the week. This kind of privacy assault is not easily defeated, certainly not by requesting a list of forum posts be erased. At best erasure heads off or defeats the average amateur crack-pot type of privacy invader.

At some point, one needs to learn the valuable lesson, perhaps the hard way, of how/when to be appropriately discrete about the kinds of information they put out there for cyberspace to do whatever floats it's boat to do with. What I feel is appropriate for myself may be more than what somebody else feels is appropriate for them.


The real privacy concern for all of us is not a matter of the visible information we mistakenly blurt out into a public forum, it's the invisible activity that allows the internet to be managed the way it is, and deep understanding of the underlying protocols that carry my typed text and graphics to your displays, traffic sniffiing and decoding, satellites and computers in space filtering all traffic for further indepth analysis to be done manually by some government drone, filtering based on keywords automatically detected by the first-level computer monitoring programs that flag the drone "hey, drone, here is something for you to spend your government-paid time paying closer attention to, via Echelon, Magic Lantern, Homeland Security... that kind of stuff .....will still be here or there lurking no matter how much any of us may try to retroactively remove information we typed into a forum. And, there is always the anonymity factor - in most cases the average person among us is seldom in a position to say we really know for sure that any other posting personality that we know electronically as forum handle/nickname/number is in fact an actual person portrayed by the typing style of the handle/nickname/number.

Bottom line, if you want ultimate privacy, do not connect to the internet, do not have an SS #, or bank account, or credit card, or grocery card, or an insurance policy - especially a health/medical policy, neither self-payed nor HMO, dont' have a telephone number, or mail box, and purchase with cash only. If you want no privacy, then avail yourself to all of these and be sure to regularly and repeatedly disclose your personal information, like phone number, age, gender and address, and be sure to clarify when you can be found at this location. If you want something in between the two extremese, use your own best judgement accordingly as to what and when you publicly reveal information that relates to your personal self. Tweet