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You can't take something off the Internet. It's like taking pee out of a swimming pool.

— Joe · NewsRadio

A small turquoise wading pool with yellow color spreading in the water and a tiny net on its rim.
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The speaker compares removing something from the Internet with trying to separate contamination from pool water. It presents online circulation as a process that quickly escapes control. The deliberately crude image makes that claim easy to picture and gives the warning its comic bluntness.

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