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A comment on How companies use fake sites, backdated articles to censor Google results (2017). Parent comment

Re:How companies use fake sites, backdated articles to censo... by akavel on Monday October 01, 2018 @02:36AM (#18110448)
Problem is, the evil SEOs backdate, therefore he needs to prove that the content was created no earlier - thus IIUC, blockchain/Merkle tree can't help him...
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Re:How companies use fake sites, backdated articles to censo... by jobigoud on Monday October 01, 2018 @04:10AM (#18110809)
Depends on who has the burden of proof? The evil SEO cannot prove his version was created earlier than his.
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