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Interesting topic, but it reads like a hastily written article that probably could have been condensed to a single paragraph. People appear to be writing Tumbl
by batch12 3y ago
Interesting topic, but it reads like a hastily written article that probably could have been condensed to a single paragraph.
People appear to be writing Tumblr blog posts and backdating them to use as evidence for Google DCMA takedowns.
- shp0ngle 3y agoI needed to read the article several times to understand what is going on exactly. Yes exactly as you said, scammers doing visa scams and such are copying articles that criticise them, backdate them on tumblr, then use DCMA to take them down, then delete the tumblr post.
- HeatrayEnjoyer 3y ago1: Why does Tumblr have this feature in the first place? I can think of a hundred ways this is ripe for abuse. 2: Why does Google not have a mitigation/validation strategy in place? They surely know Tumblr timestamps cannot be trusted. This is the type of obvious gaping vulnerability I expect to see in a personal side project, not on two of largest tech platforms.
- evanelias 3y agoNearly all blogging software offers the ability to edit post dates arbitrarily, and this has been the case since the dawn of blogging. It is very surprising if Google is trusting these as-is. btw on the social media side of Tumblr (dashboard feed of followed blogs), the user-editable post date is ignored, so it cannot be used for manipulating the dashboard sort order.
- neilv 3y agoI think that site isn't using a familiar Western written journalism style. Maybe the article is more intelligible to whomever knows how to skim whatever style it is. Or maybe it's LLM-generated and accessible to no one.