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> Date: 29 Jan 2004 05:45:09 -0000 > From: valerie@unixmama.com > To: xxxxxxxxxxxx@cyberspace.org > Subject: a request > Hello. I'm writing with a request that is very important to me. > I deleted my online baby diary from Grex. There is a vote that has > just started, to undelete it, against my wishes. Please, even if > you haven't used Grex in a long time, I urge you to log in and vote >to leave the baby diary deleted. The vote also includes John Perry's > divorce diary, which I deleted at his request, and which he wishes > to also stay deleted. I encourage you to log in and vote to leave all > these items deleted. My baby diary items contain lots of personal > information about me and my children that I no longer wish to be > posted on the Internet. Even if my items are restored without my > postings, my baby diary items are still all about me and my children, > and the other people's postings are full of my personal information > that I no longer wish to have posted. > > Here are the details of what happened: Back in 1997, I started > keeping an online baby diary on Grex, logging many personal details > of pregnancy, the births of my children, and many details of raising > them, and about my personal life. I originally posted it because > I thought people who hadn't experienced pregnancy and childbirth > might be interested to read about these things. I figured that > since it was located in a back corner of Grex, the only people who > would wade through my baby diary were people who were interested > enough in parenting to wade through hundreds of postings about messy > diapers and other topics of interest only to people who were truly > interested in parenting issues, and also to people who were very > patient friends of mine who wanted to keep up with my life. > > A few weeks ago, I discovered that a parody of my baby diary had > been running on M-Net for the past 2 1/2 years, without my knowledge. > (If you would like to see it, it's item 39 in the "Agora" conference > on M-Net.) Some of the postings there are funny, some are nasty. > Finding the parody explained a lot about why the real baby diary > had, in the past 2 1/2 years, acquired a number of people who didn't > really seem to be interested in parenting, as you could tell by > their postings. They were visiting my baby diary to acquire > material to parody on M-Net, or better yet to post my words verbatim > and laugh about how outrageous or personal the information was. > The rules of the parody game in M-Net's Agora conference say that > anything posted anywhere on Grex is open to parodying. There is > no way to opt out of being parodied. That is, if you post anything > on Grex, the people in M-Net's Agora conference take it as an open > invitation to parody you. I wished to opt out. So I deleted my > baby diary. I used my Grex staff access to do it, just as I would > have done for any user of Grex who asked staff to delete an item that > was full of his or her personal information that they no longer wanted > to have online. > > When I deleted the baby diaries, someone started a discussion > in the co-op conference, claiming that my deletion of the baby > diaries was "root abuse". User jp2 started a vote, this vote that > I am writing to you about, to undelete the baby diaries. His > reasoning is that since there were other people's words in the baby > diaries, he claims it was censorship for me to delete their words > without their permission. I find this claim bizarre. The information > in those baby diaries is all about me and my children. If someone > else had posted my credit card numbers, it would clearly be appropriate > to delete that posting, because it contained my personal information. > Most of the postings in the baby diaries are likewise all about my > personal information. I no longer wish to have this personal > information online. > > So, if you would log in to Grex and vote "no" on proposal "A", > I would very much appreciate it. > > To vote, log in to Grex, and, type !vote from a menu, or > vote from a shell prompt. Then follow the menus from there. > > -Valerie
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