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probably safe to say that the idea of a user on a platform like Facebook trying to obfuscate their history on the platform... is a short jog from an individual
by flattone 7y ago
probably safe to say that the idea of a user on a platform like Facebook trying to obfuscate their history on the platform... is a short jog from an individual trying to avoid government backed hacking on them.
Facebook has many years of pretty smart work, and probably safe to say tens of millions of dollars just in meetings about specifically this (re costs associated with effort of user data retention).
- luckylion 7y agoWhat will be the consequences though? I'm sure they can easily discover that the user is trying to overwrite his history, batch edits are easy to spot - but what will they do about it? Ban him & delete his data? Stop him from editing his own posts? Just throw away all changes that don't pass the smell test?
- flattone 7y agoI would speculate that they have built systems in a way that it would not matter what any user does. any edits to a already existing post probably just append