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Re:China’s surveillance state has created at least four bill... by luckylion on Saturday February 23, 2019 @02:58PM (#19235165)
They trust post visibility controls to hide their posts from the government? Hell, I wouldn't even trust those to hide them from anyone, really. Too man bugs in software, too many bugs in UX, too many terrible business decisions ("we'll just remove these to expand user generated content and drive up enagegement levels"). When you give me "controls" I don't control, I treat them as if they are always set to the worst case possible.
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Re:China’s surveillance state has created at least four bill... by yorwba on Saturday February 23, 2019 @04:06PM (#19235474)
The government knows anyway. Half of the posts about censorship I see are just screenshots of two sides of a conversation, showing which messages didn't make it to the other end. The visibility controls are there to hide that stuff from people who're not part of the government.
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