this post was submitted on 13 Apr 2025
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If you think you might change your mind about sharing information, don't put it in the Internet in the first place. Even if deletions always federated, it can be kept in dozens of other ways.
Yeah, my attitude towards this is that if I post something, I voluntarily lose control of it. Post accordingly.
It's easily said, but there can be some serious ramifications to this. What if the thing that was ok to post about some years ago now becomes outlawed and the state uses posts from the past to identify now illegal behavior (e.g. LGBT issues, political opposition/opinions generally, consumption of some previously legal substance like cannabis, ...)
The state might already have a copy of all your posts anyways to use that, but many states don't.
It’s cute that you think they don’t have a copy of everything the instant you post it.
They literally have black box rooms inspecting all traffic in all the major internet POPs in the US.
Well I don't live in the US
Doesn't matter, they're collecting it anyway.
You do understand how networking works, yes? They are getting EVERYTHING that goes through a U.S. POP.
You're rude
Yeah, they've got that recorded, too.
New username periodically?