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Honestly, my old blog post about a 2019 protest got memory-holed by the platform last week.
It took me six hours of digging through archives and screenshots just to prove it ever existed. Does quietly removing old content like that count as censorship, or is it just 'platform management'?
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jesse_cooper3d ago
Platforms have to manage massive amounts of old data, and sometimes that means cleaning house. It’s a practical move, not a political one, to keep things running smooth and stay within the law. Calling it censorship gives too much credit to a simple cleanup job that probably hit thousands of old posts. Your six hour search just shows how much stuff gets posted and forgotten every day.
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wesley1393d ago
You're right about the data pile-up, @jesse_cooper, but calling it just a cleanup misses the point. When specific types of content keep getting removed, it starts to look like a pattern, not an accident. I've seen accounts get flagged for old posts that were fine when they were made. The real issue is platforms not being clear about their rules or what gets swept. It feels less like spring cleaning and more like a quiet way to shape what's left online.
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