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A Boring Dystopia

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Cool, cool cool cool. Nothing dystopian about that at all.

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[–] Windex007@lemmy.world 1 points 1 week ago

At one point it was possible to download every reddit comment ever. I think it was around 10 years ago I had a copy of that. I can't remember if it was from reddit directly or from some third party with scrapers. I recall the dataset being free... but it might have been free for me because I had an academic justification? Really don't recall.

Anyways, point being that you're delusional if you think anything you post online ever goes away. Secondly, you can be much less than palentir and have "deleted reddit account comments". Anyone can get them.

[–] anachronist@midwest.social 1 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago)

Also this is being orchestrated by the DSCC showing that the Democrats still have power and deep state ties, they just use them against left/anti-zionists.

EDIT: Are the downvoters refusing to see that all this came out after Janet Mills jumped in the race and immediately got endorsed by Schumer? It is obviously oppo research by her supporters.

[–] sexual_tomato@lemmy.dbzer0.com 1 points 1 week ago (1 children)

For as long as Reddit has been available there have been places that would scrape it and mirror deleted/edited comments. I don't remember what any of them are so people would use them all the time to figure out what someone said before they were banned.

[–] village604@adultswim.fan 1 points 1 week ago

There were also sites that you could put in a username and it would give you a pretty in depth summary of the person's location and facts about them.

[–] bitjunkie@lemmy.world 1 points 1 week ago
[–] Rivalarrival@lemmy.today 0 points 1 week ago (1 children)

Once upon a time, we understood that "putting something online" meant releasing it to the public in perpetuity. Any claim otherwise was gaslighting.

Facebook, et al, have somehow managed to convince people that privacy is something you can get back after they've coerced you to give it up.

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[–] moderatecentrist@feddit.uk 0 points 1 week ago

For some time now, I have written stuff on the internet under the assumption that one day, my identity will be publicly tied to everything I wrote. Surely in the future it will be easy to give an example of my writing to an AI bot, perhaps combined with some facts about my life, and the bot would be able to find anonymous posts that were likely written by me, across the internet.

[–] TheBat@lemmy.world 0 points 1 week ago (4 children)

In October 2025, various news outlets reported on past Reddit posts by Platner between 2013 and 2021 in which he called himself a "communist", declared that "all" cops are "bastards", and agreed with a post describing White people as "racist and stupid".[36] In a 2013 Reddit discussion about anti-rape underwear, Platner commented that people worried about assault should "take some responsibility for themselves and not get so fucked up they wind up having sex with someone they don't mean to".[37] He also referenced political violence in multiple posts; in 2018, he wrote: "Fight until you get tired of fighting with words and then fight with signs, and fists, and guns if need be." Platner also said that "an armed working class is a requirement for economic justice" and urged readers to "Get Armed, Get Organized. The Other Side Sure As Hell Is

Based?

[–] technocrit@lemmy.dbzer0.com 1 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago)

Nothing based about overt misogyny and rape apologism... Not to mention the nazi tattoo.

On the plus side, he'll be great at "bridging the aisle". \s

[–] smiletolerantly@awful.systems 0 points 1 week ago (1 children)

Depends - was the assault comment directed at assailants or victims?

[–] TheBat@lemmy.world 0 points 1 week ago (2 children)

I read that wrong. He was talking about victims. The comments are from 2013.

He also claims then 'he was at his lowest point in life after 4 tours of Iraq, dealing with PTSD and didn't know what the fuck he was talking about'.

[–] technocrit@lemmy.dbzer0.com 1 points 1 week ago

Nazi tattoo... Rape apologism... What other wacky stuff has this scamp gotten up to?

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[–] socsa@piefed.social 0 points 1 week ago

Well, except for the rape shit. That is pretty jarring.

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[–] guy@piefed.social 0 points 1 week ago

Don't you guys have NSA? Just have a contact there and...

[–] AsyncTheYeen@lemmy.world 0 points 1 week ago (2 children)

Imagine thinking your privacy is above profit where capitalism rules lmao

You muricas are too dumb to understand that nothing has more power than money on a profit driven society like yours, like the ones your stupid elite forced upon every country's throat as they could

Your "market freedom" is actually money dictatorship, EUA is not a free country

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[–] Xanthrax@lemmy.world 0 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago)

Lmao. Waybackmachine

Edit: woops, other guy said it.

[–] OldChicoAle@lemmy.world -1 points 1 week ago

Who's the cute guy?

[–] CovfefeKills@lemmy.world -2 points 1 week ago (19 children)

So like internet archive? oooo spooky

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