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“Wipe The Slate Clean For 2010, Commit Web 2.0 Suicide”. On December 31, 2009, a web 2.0 suicide was announced: “Are you tired of living in public, sick of all the privacy theater the social networks are putting on, and just want to end it all online? Now you can wipe the slate clean with the web 2.0 Suicide Machine” (Schonfeld 2009).
This message was put on TechCrunch, a Rotterdam-based weblog on new technologies (http://moddr.net/), a new media space for artists, hackers, and filmmakers. The TechCrunchies guarantee that any individual user of web 2.0 sites (like Facebook, Twitter, and YouTube), enabled by a simple computer program, can wipe out all his/her personal codes, passwords, and login codes. The goal is to ...
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