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Colleteral damage example: Whenever Twitter suspends a user for a "bad tweet", they delete many more good tweets, because they delete all tweets by that user, which causes lots of colleteral damage.

Let's imagine a Twitter account with 40000 good (uncontroversial) tweets since 2012. Then that user unknowingly tweets something bad (politically incorrect), e.g. real crime statistics by race, possibly leading to suspension for hate speech.

This would cause 40000 good tweets and replies of nearly 9 years to get deleted for 1 "bad" tweet, causing many memory holes in conversations over the years.

  • Lesson: Big tech sites are not fair. Keep that in mind.
  • Lesson 2: Everything that's not archived is at risk of loss.
Colleteral damage example: Whenever Twitter suspends a user for a "bad tweet", they delete many more good tweets, because they delete **all** tweets by that user, which causes lots of colleteral damage. Let's imagine a Twitter account with 40000 good (uncontroversial) tweets since 2012. Then that user unknowingly tweets something *bad* (politically incorrect), e.g. real crime statistics by race, possibly leading to suspension for *hate speech*. This would cause 40000 good tweets and replies of nearly 9 years to get deleted for 1 "bad" tweet, causing many memory holes in conversations over the years. ---- * Lesson: Big tech sites are not fair. Keep that in mind. * Lesson 2: Everything that's not archived is at risk of loss.

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Lesson 2: Everything that's not archived is at risk of loss or alteration.

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Especially at Faggit 😂 (Spez in November 2016)

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Lesson 3: Those tweets never got seen anyway.

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Depends on who posted them. Maybe they would have been seen in the long term.

Maybe Twitter employees still view some content of suspended accounts.

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ANY tweet. When you post something to social media, most people don't even see.