Re:Facebook Secretly Saved Videos Users Deleted
by pbhjpbhj on Sunday April 01, 2018 @05:04AM
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Deletion by flag is very common in IT and presumably has been since the first undelete program was created. It's not a Facebook thing.
Some mail programs for a long time have had a soft-delete that requires an expunging process to create compete removal.
In an IT setting you can delete a blob from a db, but it might still be on disk, and it will still be in caches, on user machines, and in backups/archives.
"remove or obliterate (written or printed matter), especially by drawing a line through it or marking it with a delete sign."
"synonyms: remove, cut out, take out, edit out, expunge, excise, eradicate, cancel"
All of these seem clearly "absolute" to me. "Delete" means it's gone.
I think Facebook has its own special linguistic distortion field. It requires no "dumb conspiracy theory" to realize that Facebook cannot be trusted.