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It was for plausible deniability because of regulatory scrutiny. Regulator's dead now, so now there's no downside and only upsides to spying on your users.

• dngray 8mo ago
  They never did this for user privacy, and yes I think you're spot on. This was just to remove liability. Now it just costs them the data and development cost to maintain. Any remaining problems they'll throw some crappy AI moderator at to fix.
  • gmerc 8mo ago
    Not hard to be right about this when you worked there at the time ;)
    • pixxel 7mo ago
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• infinitewars 8mo ago
  Palantir
• mpalmer 8mo ago
  > no downside That is not the view their legal department takes, I guarantee it. Congress ain't gonna keep its composition indefinitely.