Alot of people are linking to this New York Times piece on erasing embarrassing evidence of your cyberspace presence because Anil Dash managed to get a picture of himself featuring a Goatse tee-shirt into the Paper of Record. (In case you are one of the few who do not have a clue about what Goatse is, here is the wikipedia explanation, with further links.) But the Times article is of merit from a content standpoint as well!

While doing a google search on an unrelated topic, I happened upon this long-forgotten evidence of my 1989 web presence. It’s a dump of a 1989 bulletin board discussion I got into, and I think got backed into a corner on, on issues of web censorship. I think yo might find it interesting. I probably wouldn’t get as bent out of shape about heil.zip these days, but I can’t be sure. Was the analogy I drew to swastika graffiti on a synagogue wall a reasonable one? It may be an even more pertinent question today than it was in 1989, because the internet is a much larger ‘virtual wall’ on which graffiti will be in a much greater number of people’s faces. I later got into a verbal tussle over similar censorship issues with renowned weblogger (and one of my initial boosters when FmH appeared) Jorn Barger, who was at one point a virtual pariah with a large number of netizens for the appearance of anti-Semitism.

An interactive feature about the U.S. military’s interrogation practices since Sept. 11 and the Bush administration policies that have informed them. (Slate)

Alot of people are linking to this New York Times piece on erasing embarrassing evidence of your cyberspace presence because Anil Dash managed to get a picture of himself featuring a Goatse tee-shirt into the Paper of Record. (In case you are one of the few who do not have a clue about what Goatse is, here is the wikipedia explanation, with further links.) But the Times article is of merit from a content standpoint as well!