At the end of the film The Social Network, Mark Zuckerberg approaches the ex-girlfriend whom, earlier in the film, he had dragged through the mud online. He wasn't getting her back, of course. As she put it: "The Internet isn't written in pencil, Mark. It's written in ink."
But what if that could change?
A growing group of privacy advocates in the U.S. and abroad want the Internet to be written in pencil. In particular, they'd like it to be easier for their children to take down posts or other information that they once put online and now wish they hadn't.
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