stody. Lack of internet access or restrictions imposed by correctional facilities can prevent them from logging into their accounts.
7. Relocation or travel: Users who relocate or embark on long-term travel may face challenges in accessing their accounts due to changes in internet availability, language barriers, or limited access to personal devices.
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9. Natural disasters or emergencies: Users affected by natural disasters, such as hurricanes, earthquakes, or floods, or those caught in emergency situations may be unable to access their accounts due to power outages, infrastructure damage, or prioritizing immediate safety and well-being.
10. Legal or regulatory restrictions: Users may face legal or regulatory restrictions that prevent them from accessing specific platforms or online services. These restrictions can vary by country, jurisdiction, or individual circumstances.
So much for "don't be evil". Same for other companies such as Imgur.
Totally inconsiderate of the variable of sudden flunctuations in human life.
Just imagine.
You spend your lifetime growing up, from a baby, to a children, to a teenager, to an adult,
while coasting towards old age and towards a mortal end.
all the while making your moments on the internet
through posting things like blog, video, posts, photo, games and so on
They can be happy things, or saddest moments.
But each things you've willingly put on the net like Blogger and YouTube,
when summed together
represents your legacy you left to the whole world, and perhaps the universe
Eventually you pass away, your body turned to ashes,
whether by fire, ice, ground, or so on.
Could your IRL belongings outlast you?
Well, perhaps,
but not really for long.
Your stuff, like your childhood toy, electronics, up to vehicles,
might survive and pass on to your children
but that's not a sure guarantee
for those could get destroyed by mishaps
like fires, floods, earthquakes, and et cetera
If you don't plan having children,
the best shot is a museum
with the caveat that you have to work as hard as you can
in order to become part of the top and be cherished by as many as possible.
But, in IRL, on this planet, space is so finite
Eventually museums have to "deaccession" what you left behind
to make way for others.
Same goes to your house, your farmland and other fixed properties,
which either for best or for worst, be taken as an eminent domain by governments,
and one day, they might be demolished to make place for new structures.
So, with commonly accessible space travel still out in the near future,
with the very grain being freedom, openness, and permanence of information
Out there, you can store the entire Library of Congress to the tip of your fingernail
making it far easier for you and anyone else to flourish in posterity.
Thus, it is the last line of defense and bastion
for which your legacies can live unfettered
until far, far, far, in the future
the literal end of time when all molecules and atoms
have decayed into dust.
But now, because of the shortsighted goofball decisions
Whatever you've achieved, whatever you've done
whatever you've experienced,
whatever you've survived,
From the time you're babies when you have to cry for food or anything
to the time you're childrens
when you play, when you learn to walk,
when you learn to interact, when you learn to eat,
when you learn to run, when you learn to write,
when you learn to count, when you learn to know the places.
as you grow into a teenager, you'll invariably learn
how to fullfill these and that obligations
it could be homeworks, it could be as small as promises
besides, you also learn how to behave
this can come off as the hardest parts of some
some could fall, but some can rise again
you learn how to deal with bad classmates, and sometimes bad teachers
Perhaps, at this point
most of us are starting to learn how to access the internet,
to experience the wider world, likely for the first time.
While some may do it earlier, this is when legacies starts to beleft online
as you grow into an adult
the process becomes harder
life starts to become less carefree
subjects like sciences, maths, and languages
becomes much harder and harder
sine, cos and tangent
makes what you're taught earlier
looks like cakewalk
in turn, there are integrations, differentations
and so many calculus stuff
perhaps you'll get your first kiss at this point
or you learn how to drive for the very first time.
Nevertheless, you become eager to venture further and further
as you pass 18 and into adulthood
you get to learn even more new stuff that amazes you
whether in colleges, universities, and so on
you start to learn how to really interact with others
you start to learn how to prepare for the actual real world
you start to learn how to manage your budgets
you start to learn how to pay your taxes
you start to learn how to buy manage your house(s)
you start to learn more life skills
as you go on and on, from young adult to retirement
you know how to deal with intricacies
like your boss, customers, and audiences
life goes on, but it's quite unpredictable.
one small misstep, means a one giant leap towards disaster
You could make a right choice, or a wrong choice
Each shaped a cheerier and downbeat aspects
of your life respectively.
When you're past retirement and into old age.
Your mortal coil begins to falter.
Illnesses upon illnesses, falling upon you,
making you unable to live as before
If you're lucky, you could feel prosperous and fulfilled until the very end
but if you're unlucky, the ending have occurred long ago.
Your legacies, aka what makes you meaningful,
which is the sum of what you've seen
what you've made, what you've felt,
what you've fought for or against,
what you've experienced, pretty much everything else
will one day, be destroyed
as if you've lived for nothing, at all
as if everything about you, have been sucked into a black donut.
It's not just any ordinary Dunkin Donuts that you eat or so,
rather, it's this
Everything, everywhere, all at once being sucked into this bagel donut
The end! Period!
Nothing matters!
Cry now!
But, if and as you cry,
invariably you will realize that
perhaps it'd be better to derive an iota of meaning
from your life to those around you, up till the whole universe
perhaps the multiverse, maybe.
than none at all
The meaning of "none at all" could encompass letting your legacies
be sucked into the black bagel, rather than letting these flourish,
until the very, very end of time.
Well, well, well
The black bagel can still get you if you for some reason
have to stay away from your digital world
such as protect your homeland like Ukrainians do now
getting hit by a car, a bullet from some crazy wacko during a mass shooting spree
or get jumped so much that you're unconscious for many years
or, you get trumped up charges because witnesses think you are the perp
so much that you're falsely jailed
until you're cleared many years later
After all, Anonymous knows that a Malaysian girl
where she followed all the traffic rules
but was wrongly imprisoned because some teenagers
made the very reckless choices of racing on the roads
and hit her car.
Like we said, she was (wrongfully) jailed for many years
juggling on appeals
until she was finally cleared.
Ultimately, it goes much more than you expect,
in that the point of this is to try to made the experiences
of those who might be the target of the harsh inactivity accounts purge
to be less suck-y as possible.
Therefore, Anonymous urges Google to drop its decision to purge inactive accounts.
At the very minimum, only, and only accounts which is abandoned for many years quickly after creation should be purged
Taking in consideration of Google's announced rationale,
here are some suggestions for Google, in terms of middle-ground or more moderate alternatives, instead of purging entire accounts:
1. Throttling/restriction of Gmail's sending and receipt function after a period of inactivity, while clearing out its email contents. If the owner logs back in and want to "thaw" it, he can either verify a phone number, pay a one-time fee, or et cetera.
2. Depreciation and banning of using certain "public disposable emails" such as Mailinator as the recovery email address. Those kind of accounts are the low hanging fruit for an account theft and subsequent abuse.
3. Give every user an unique alphanumeric string. Once their accounts gone inactive, lock its functionality rather than deleting it altogether. To thaw it,
they have either provide the string or wait for an arbitrarily variable amount of time for it to fully thaw itself. The latter is a "hostile engineering" principle to deter re-purposing into spam-sending accounts and so on as much as possible.
4. Throttling of some certain functions for users who haven't enrolled into 2FA (excluding phone based) authentication Give perks such as bigger video upload limit and lenient sending limit to those who has enabled 2FA authentication.
Ultimately, you can lead a horse to a river, but you can't make it drink. The side effects of going ahead with the harsh account purges aren't going to be limited by the destruction of histories; it will spawn the rise of niche type services offering to manually log on to accounts to keep it safe from purges. But what will happen if these services, or rather its individual constituents are compromised or hacked? You are back to the square one, to the same starting point, period.
Anonymous also calls for Google to:
1. Implement a Facebook-style memorialization function for Google/YouTube accounts whose owners have passed away.
2. Create a function to merge two accounts together. For instance, the first Gmail account can continue to use the second's email address as an alias after merging.
Furthermore, to the rest of the citizens of the world (including us), Anonymous wants to made these suggestions crystal clear:
1. Initiation of a massive and sustained movement to support and uphold the preservation of histories, including digital. It will not be limited to myopic short term views and insights. It will be more than just protesting in the streets calling on Google and/or Imgur and/or other tech giants to reconsider and/or drop the decisions amounting to the destruction of internet histories. It will be multidisciplinary, ranging from the research of future ultracompact storage technologies, to scouting the best locations for housing archival facilities, whether on Earth or beyond. It will combine the best of existing, smaller movements or organizations such as the Internet Archive and so many others. This isn't going to be easy, but it's going to be hard, but there should be a try on that, particularly given that the Doomsday Clock is just 90 seconds until midnight.
2. In conjunction or separate from above, a movement to support the incorporation of thanatosensitivity into the core aspects and principles of internet platforms, particularly social media platforms. With these in mind, it has been noted that data-privacy laws like EU's GDPR is the cause of over-correction from companies by favouring deletion over preservation. One possible remedy is the call for amendment of GDPR et all to include the data subject's right of preservation, or right to be remembered, or so on. Ideally the proposed right should be in harmony with other rights as enshrined in GDPR-type laws as much as possible.
3. As Google et al has grown into de-facto utilities these days, there may be an overarching need to treat and recognize them as such. In turn it might be instrumental if mistakes in the form of Geocities and Yahoo Answers destruction are to be prevented. After all, if Wikipedia fails, because of financial cancers, dysfunctional community or so, at least there's going to be a Justapedia, an Encycla, and a Botipedia, as Wikipedia's contents are freely redistributed. Perhaps Wikipedia is destined to fail anyways because little birds told us of a scandal that a sysop is a likely chomo, and that a journalist has found it but was stonewalled from publication. YouTube, on the other hand, is where you can't really freely archive their videos because some videos have copyright licenses mandating that it stays on YouTube only. There is indeed a gray area for fair use but that exemption doesn't really protect you nowadays everytime. Bad isn't it?
We are Anonymous We are legion We do not forget We do not forgive Expect us!
