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Twitter's response to US Government search warrant (turned over deleted DMs) [pdf]

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Re: Twitter's response to US Government search warrant (turned over deleted DMs) [pdf]

#41

At this point, Elon's purchase and seemingly-intentional brand-suicide looks more and more like a political favor. I mean, yes, if we shave this with Hanlon's Razor, the outcome is the same, but the rightward swing of Elon's public statements certainly makes this look more like quid-pro-quo than an oopsie.

Political favor for who?

Peter

Re: Twitter's response to US Government search warrant (turned over deleted DMs) [pdf]

#42

At this point, Elon's purchase and seemingly-intentional brand-suicide looks more and more like a political favor. I mean, yes, if we shave this with Hanlon's Razor, the outcome is the same, but the rightward swing of Elon's public statements certainly makes this look more like quid-pro-quo than an oopsie.

Any other time and HN would be cheering that user data was attempted to be kept private and not disclosed. But one whiff of it being on the wrong side of a political divide and it becomes a witch hunt.

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#43

Earlier quoted context omitted.

You mean the data you voluntarily submitted to HN, an organization you don't own or pay for? C'mon. If you want to be forgotten, don't participate in the first place.

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You can delete posts within two hours and dang is usually good about deleting stuff if you email him directly from what others have said in the past. If you can’t delete it, you can edit it to be blank.

Edit: two hours, thanks

Re: Twitter's response to US Government search warrant (turned over deleted DMs) [pdf]

#44
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My favorite part is when the government suggests to Twitter that they should Ctl-F to find 'associated accounts'

Easy-peasy, just open the last 6 years of twitter access logs in Excel and ctrl-F for Donny's ip/device identifier!

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#45

Earlier quoted context omitted.

You mean the data you voluntarily submitted to HN, an organization you don't own or pay for? C'mon. If you want to be forgotten, don't participate in the first place.

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Many HN users have been on the other side of doing CCPA and GDPR data compliance and have more than passing familiarity with what is required and how that differs from what is desired.

The four word summary of "right to be forgotten" does not properly encompass the PII that can be requested to be deleted nor differentiate it from other data which can be retained.

Re: Twitter's response to US Government search warrant (turned over deleted DMs) [pdf]

#46
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My favorite part is when the government suggests to Twitter that they should Ctl-F to find 'associated accounts'

Google seems to be able to find associated accounts by seeing if one device is signed in multiple times. Same with Meta. The court specifically asked for other accounts used by trump on the same device . This SHOULD be as simple as control-F. Twitter almost certainly stores some sort of device identifier that can accomplish this.

> Twitter almost certainly stores some sort of device identifier that can accomplish this.

They definitely do, and use this as part of when they ban a user permanently - all other accounts (i.e. "backup" accounts) that have ever used the device in question get banned as well. Happened way too often in my circles.

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#47

At this point, Elon's purchase and seemingly-intentional brand-suicide looks more and more like a political favor. I mean, yes, if we shave this with Hanlon's Razor, the outcome is the same, but the rightward swing of Elon's public statements certainly makes this look more like quid-pro-quo than an oopsie.

If it were any other man I'd be considering your conspiracy theory but Musk has become so completely unhinged that imho Hanlon's Razor wins. The man has a terminal case of internet poisoning.

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#48

At this point, Elon's purchase and seemingly-intentional brand-suicide looks more and more like a political favor. I mean, yes, if we shave this with Hanlon's Razor, the outcome is the same, but the rightward swing of Elon's public statements certainly makes this look more like quid-pro-quo than an oopsie.

In your theory, what does Elon get in return for these 'favors'?

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#50

Earlier quoted context omitted.

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You can delete posts within two hours and dang is usually good about deleting stuff if you email him directly from what others have said in the past. If you can’t delete it, you can edit it to be blank. Edit: two hours, thanks

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