> Is that actually right? Feels pretty suspect to me, you have to hold onto the data at least a little bit to transmit it to all connected clients, being a clie

> Is that actually right? Feels pretty suspect to me, you have to hold onto the data at least a little bit to transmit it to all connected clients, being a client-server protocol. I don't think this passes by the courts, not any more than holding onto a few dozen or a few minutes of logs in a non-persistent fashion (i.e. in-memory only) would. It doesn't excuse failure to moderate the service at all, but if there is no chat history, you cannot be excepted to moderate it specifically. Basically, in any even remotely fair legal system, one cannot be excepted to delete something that doesn't exist in the first place.