Well you better just leave now if you think canaries protect you from the past. Once a canary dies from a legal compulsion to provide information, everything said on the site prior to that is available for subpoena or confiscation. I never understood why people think they are safe so long as the canary doesn't die. That's not how it works. The compulsion to provide is due to something already done just as often as discovery process. Canaries just tell you that you're potentially already being investigated and the site is definitely on the radar.
It comes from a misunderstanding of what the canary is. It's an indicator that a request for data has been made, not that your data is deleted because of that request.
Im stupid and didnt want to ask on voat. What is a canary. I understand what it means symbolically.
A canary (warrant canary) is a section of a website that gets updated regularly with a phrase like "This site has never received a request for or provided information to any agency."
Essentially that means the website owner hasn't had the FBI calling about something you posted. When the canary "dies," or doesn't get updated, assume that the website has had a request for information about a user.
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