Afghans are racing to erase their online lives
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#2Friendly reminder that when you delete your discord account, they don't delete your statements, just strip the account name from them, similar to how Github is doing it with their ghost account. For Github, I sort of understand it. For discord, it feels very dangerous to me.
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#3>The Taliban has previously shown it’s capable and willing to harness the vast data piles we create every day to try and filter out people it believes are detrimental to its way of life, including official government databases. In 2016, Taliban insurgents killed 12 passengers on a bus they stopped after requiring everyone to scan their fingerprints on a biometric machine that cross-checked a database of security force workers, according to an Afghan army commander. “Most of the passengers were not familiar with the machine but we knew it was a biometric device that could identify security force members from amongst civilians,” the commander told Afghan news website TOLOnews at the time.
That is a pretty deep penetration of the former regime which is also evidenced by the speed of the power transfer. Not that it is a surprise in general for anybody who paid attention, and the end game was clear, yet the actual forest-fire like speed is still very impressive - for example the pro-Soviet puppet regime back then fought for 3 years after the Soviet forces had left before finally falling.
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#4If there's one thing China got right it's the non-interference policy in internal affairs of other countries.
Others should learn by example.
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#5Friendly reminder that when you delete your discord account, they don't delete your statements, just strip the account name from them, similar to how Github is doing it with their ghost account. For Github, I sort of understand it. For discord, it feels very dangerous to me.
No IM platform I am aware of does this. SMS doesn't do it, telegram doesn't do it, email doesn't do it.
Most platforms do not even let you edit or delete messages at all.
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#6If there's one thing China got right it's the non-interference policy in internal affairs of other countries. Others should learn by example.
Yeah I also like that about china. For example this time it didn't interfere
https://www.theartnewspaper.com/news/genghis-khan-exhibition...
Could site countless of other examples of the chinese not meddling
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#7If there's one thing China got right it's the non-interference policy in internal affairs of other countries. Others should learn by example.
Huh? What would you call them trying to place a Fudan University in Hungary then?
Re: Afghans are racing to erase their online lives
#8Friendly reminder that when you delete your discord account, they don't delete your statements, just strip the account name from them, similar to how Github is doing it with their ghost account. For Github, I sort of understand it. For discord, it feels very dangerous to me.
No IM platform I am aware of does this. SMS doesn't do it, telegram doesn't do it, email doesn't do it. Most platforms do not even let you edit or delete messages at all.
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Re: Afghans are racing to erase their online lives
#9Friendly reminder that when you delete your discord account, they don't delete your statements, just strip the account name from them, similar to how Github is doing it with their ghost account. For Github, I sort of understand it. For discord, it feels very dangerous to me.
No IM platform I am aware of does this. SMS doesn't do it, telegram doesn't do it, email doesn't do it. Most platforms do not even let you edit or delete messages at all.
In Telegram you absolutely can delete messages from the UI at least and I've seen nothing to suggest anyone knows a way to get them back as if it was known someone surely had posted it here ;-)
Just log press, delete and select "Delete for me and ".
In Telegram, as an admin you can also select auto delete for a group.
Re: Afghans are racing to erase their online lives
#10If there's one thing China got right it's the non-interference policy in internal affairs of other countries. Others should learn by example.
Huh? What would you call them trying to place a Fudan University in Hungary then?
Did China drone strike civilians and hospitals in Hungary?
Did the USA build any Universities in Afghanistan or Iraq?