The Internet "Nothing" is Coming

Arikia Millikan After 10 years of working in the corporate media
industry in NYC, I have seen the destruction of the Internet
Nothing. I've battled it and mostly I've lost. I've seen thousands
of pages of journalistic content taken down, sometimes because of
blatant censorship; other times for no better reason than
a corporate whim or a site redesign. In this talk, I will
discuss how history is being erased every day,
often without a second thought. As journalists, we often pour
the stories we have fought for the right to tell onto unstable
platforms and centralized social networks, assuming those
networks will be there forever. But do you really know who
owns your content once you hit publish? Is it really yours
anymore, or does it become the property of the publication—or the
tech platform? How can you be sure it will be there in the
future? This is a wake-up call about online content
ownership and what can happen when we
place unwarranted trust in organizations that have the ability
to alter, sell, or delete our content. But there are ways to stop
The Internet Nothing! I will conclude by discussing some of
the theoretical requirements that would enable online content to
withstand destructive forces and pass the test of time.