4 ms·
I'm not so sure about cutting the storage costs at this point. They likely soft deleted the content in order to preserve it for potential law enforcement needs
by Jaygles 6y ago
I'm not so sure about cutting the storage costs at this point. They likely soft deleted the content in order to preserve it for potential law enforcement needs or whatever else. Moving forward they will absolutely see a decrease in storage needs since uploads are so much more restricted
- shadowgovt 6y agoHot-store is more expensive than cold-store. For law enforcement purposes, they can have it shipped out to magnetic tape and dropped in a dry cave somewhere.
- Retr0spectrum 6y agoIt's not even soft-deleted, it's just a "this content has been flagged for verification" UI message. The content is still available for download and/or streaming with other frontend clients, such as youtube-dl.