Re:Fleets: A new way to join the conversation
by ponker on Tuesday November 17, 2020 @02:33PM
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Fleets aren't to protect the Leader of the Opposition -- they're to protect the random insurance adjuster who doesn't Tweet anything except sports because he's afraid of getting fired for it. Fleets might let him open up a bit.
Re:Fleets: A new way to join the conversation
by black_puppydog on Tuesday November 17, 2020 @03:58PM
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Sorry, in my mind even that is closing your eyes and expect nobody to be able to see you.
I'm pretty sure insurance companies, three letter agencies, and anyone else with a vested interest will make sure to have a copy of as many of these as they can get their hands on. And you won't be able to rely on yours not being in any of these stashes.
Public stays public.
Re:Fleets: A new way to join the conversation
by ponker on Tuesday November 17, 2020 @05:19PM
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Nobody will have any guarantees, but controlling the probabilities lowers the number of people affected. I know that there were multiple women in my college being serially abused by a guy who had unconsensually shared consensually recorded videos of them having sex with him, and the police were not helpful because the laws were not in place at that time. He would keep uploading to a single website with their real names. The takedown of that one website dropped to 0 their constant harassment, even if there likely are some copies of those videos still out there somewhere.
I.e. I predict politicians, activists, celebrities will stumble over them just the same.
As a thought experiment: do you think if Corbyn had fleeted his comment about that graffito, would it have really protected him? I find that unlikely.
Edit: and after typing this out, I'm pretty sure I actually think that last bit is a good thing, independent of my stance on the substance of the matter. But don't mistake "I can't see it anymore" for "nobody else will remember."