When You Can’t Hit “Delete”

Siobhain Butterworth, the Guardian’s “reader’s editor”, discussses whether ordinary people should be allowed to “unpublish” their comments after publishing them. As she says,

When you write a blog, agree to be interviewed, send a letter for publication or post a comment online, you are making a public statement in permanent form. That might seem screamingly obvious but, judging from the numbers of emails I get from people asking for material to be removed from the Guardian’s electronic archive, it seems that some people still don’t fully understand the implications of speaking to or even writing for a news organisation in the web age.

Read more of her thoughts here.