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Re:By removing “extremist content,” platforms are purging hu... by adventured on Wednesday October 23, 2019 @06:58PM (#21339955)
They've recently made the process intentionally more annoying. You used to be able to exclude a site you control via a robots.txt file. That wouldn't actually delete archived content and would merely hide it from viewing. They no longer honor that approach. You now have to send them an email and specifically request content removal.
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Re:By removing “extremist content,” platforms are purging hu... by Aloha on Wednesday October 23, 2019 @07:47PM (#21340238)
I consider this to be acceptable.
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Re:By removing “extremist content,” platforms are purging hu... by bigwavedave on Thursday October 24, 2019 @01:00AM (#21341762)
Most rational people would.
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Re:By removing “extremist content,” platforms are purging hu... by LocalH on Thursday October 24, 2019 @11:10AM (#21345414)
That approach allowed domain spammers to (unintentionally?) disable access to content that predates their ownership of the domain, so it was a garbage approach. In the current situation, a content owner can still achieve removal, but a subsequent owner of the domain cannot. That's how it should be. If I buy domain x, I should not be able to request the removal of content that was present on domain x before I owned it.
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