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Re:USDA disavows gag-order emailed to scientific research unit by ceejayoz on Tuesday January 24, 2017 @06:05PM (#13476642)
We've got our first one today. http://time.com/4645927/badlands-national-park-climate-chang...
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Re:USDA disavows gag-order emailed to scientific research unit by c0nducktr on Tuesday January 24, 2017 @06:16PM (#13476713)
...aaaand the tweets have already been purged.
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Re:USDA disavows gag-order emailed to scientific research unit by cantblockatoot on Tuesday January 24, 2017 @06:28PM (#13476815)
The value proposition of https://mastodon.social (and GNU Social in general) has just made itself abundantly clear.

From its homepage:

A decentralized alternative to commercial platforms, it avoids the risks of a single company monopolizing your communication.

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Re:USDA disavows gag-order emailed to scientific research unit by st3v3r on Tuesday January 24, 2017 @07:17PM (#13477159)
Which is probably why not many would want to use them. To some, being able to delete tweets is a feature.
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Re:USDA disavows gag-order emailed to scientific research unit by ceejayoz on Tuesday January 24, 2017 @09:08PM (#13477811)
Huh? Mastodon has a delete option just like Twitter does. The "single company" almost certainly wasn't the one to delete the posts.
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