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Re:How the powerful clean up their digital past using a repu... by theshrike79 on Tuesday February 08, 2022 @10:46AM (#30259774)
Us less powerful people should also have a habit of cleaning up our social media presence.

When people go digging around other peoples old social media posts, nothing good has ever come from it. If your 5+ year old tweets or instagram photos have actual value to you, curate them to a blog you control and delete from the platforms.

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Re:How the powerful clean up their digital past using a repu... by nebula8804 on Tuesday February 08, 2022 @03:29PM (#30264169)
I mean they will just scrape your stuff, and if its simple blogs it is slightly easier to nab all that stuff vs Instagram. Isn't that what happened to Richard Stallman?
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Re:How the powerful clean up their digital past using a repu... by theshrike79 on Wednesday February 09, 2022 @08:02AM (#30272114)
If you've removed your old edgy stuff years ago and someone digs up scraped old tweets, I'm not sure even Court of Twitter will admit that into evidence.
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Re:How the powerful clean up their digital past using a repu... by nebula8804 on Thursday February 10, 2022 @01:10PM (#30290201)
Thats a good point but it depends on the reputation of the person being canceled. If the tweets align with that person's reputation, i'd imagine it would be easier to convince the public that those tweets originated from them.
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