Surely you're joking, Skype

Skype is like Hotel California.

I laughed pretty good when I read that.

Netflix has the same policy or it did when I wanted to delete my account. Support person instructed me to change the email address to something unknown.

sadly, this is actually not new and has riddled many forums before.

skype has never allowed that before and, to my knowledge, never communicated why that is. Or if there maybe is a technical reason for it.

This is not discussing the entire internet, but trends among specific services designed make it far easier to add your personal data than remove it.

And arguably, your comment is not objectively true, but only tends to be true. There's no technical reason why data (even personal data) can't disappear from the internet - one only need look at the recent worries about the state of repos on Google Code to see that, until there's some overriding interest in backing something up, it doesn't necessarily get backed up.