Re:Facebook Admits It Was Used to Incite Violence in Myanmar...
by ForHackernews on Monday January 11, 2021 @06:43PM
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> Sure, your private messages may be delivered to your friends' nodes, but is this a big problem?
It kinda depends on the content of those messages, doesn't it? In the context of this OP, if my messages are organising a genocide then yes it might be a pretty fricking big problem.
> Toots are public by design. Everyone understands that and it has nothing to do with privacy.
Says you. Most users will have been accustomed to centralized services where it is possible to delete a tweet and have it gone, unless somebody else has gone to special effort to archive it or screenshot or what-have-you.
It kinda depends on the content of those messages, doesn't it? In the context of this OP, if my messages are organising a genocide then yes it might be a pretty fricking big problem.
> Toots are public by design. Everyone understands that and it has nothing to do with privacy.
Says you. Most users will have been accustomed to centralized services where it is possible to delete a tweet and have it gone, unless somebody else has gone to special effort to archive it or screenshot or what-have-you.