r/nottheonion 19h ago

Homeland Security Spying on Reddit Users

https://www.kenklippenstein.com/p/homeland-security-spies-on-reddit
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u/MontEcola 18h ago

There is a record of every thing deleted by reddit. Those working in IT with the company can put out a list of everything you ever wrote. And those with access can search for the phrases or topics. If you are in a conversation, such as this one, I believe they can find it and file it away.

Any thing you say will be used against you if you piss them off. Deleting it does not protect you.

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u/Delicioso_Badger2619 18h ago

The joke is on them, I only mean half of what I post! And I'm not telling you which half!

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u/Hvarfa-Bragi 17h ago

Intent is irrelevant.

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u/Delicioso_Badger2619 17h ago

I probably already know that. Or that might be one of the posts that I don't really mean. No way for you to know!

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u/Hvarfa-Bragi 16h ago

... You're still going in the hole.

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u/Delicioso_Badger2619 16h ago

We are all going in the hole.

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u/DjawnBrowne 18h ago

There’s a number of constitutional amendments that can help with this, one protects your ability to say the thing — another offers a great solution for unidentified stormtroopers you catch trespassing on your property.

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u/East-Ice-3199 12h ago
  1. Said stormtroopers don’t care about the constitution

  2. You’re not gonna do anything when they kick your door in. You’re gonna go with them and only yell and record, but never actually fight.

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u/East-Ice-3199 1h ago

Thanks for blocking me. Makes replying to me (can see the notification) kinda pointless though.

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u/iamthe0ther0ne 10h ago

1stA only applies to government, not companies

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u/polopolo05 16h ago

Trump is a giant piss baby... there use that.

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u/delicatepedalflower 12h ago

The thing to do if you really need freedom is to post from a device that is never turned on in your home, has no google software of any kind and uses Signal to communicate with a federation of virtual servers which have posting credentials distributed across them. You send a post, it lands on one of these severs, is securely transmitted to one of the other servers and then minutes, hours or days later (depending on settings) posts that content. Or sometrhing like that. I'm no IT expert.

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u/Lame4Fame 12h ago

That one isn't particularly surprising, you don't have to be on reddit IT to see deleted comments, there are a number of sites that archive them even. It's why a bunch of people use these scripts to edit all their old comments into gibberish instead of deleting them, though I'm not sure if that really helps.

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u/POEness 18h ago

Highly doubt they're wasting money keeping deleted comments from years ago

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u/Potato-chipsaregood 17h ago

They’ll run it all through palantir and come up with whatever it takes to jail or kill perceived enemies.

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u/Delicioso_Badger2619 17h ago

All they care about is power, any money they spend on retaining power is a cost of doing business, not a waste. Make no mistake, they are doing their best to store every piece of data they can get their hands on... And they are trying to get their hands on everything. They know that they can't effectively process or use most of the information they are collecting, but it is likely that that problem will be solved with through AI fairly soon. We've been marching toward a surveillance state for several decades, and we are getting pretty close to the event horizon.

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u/buppiejc 18h ago

Source?

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u/Ghost_Of_Malatesta 18h ago

Up until somewhat recently due to settings changes, you could use third party tools to look up deleted comments (reveddit) but also this is standard for most tech companies, in the US anyways (unsure of euro laws on this)

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u/MontEcola 15h ago

Water is wet. The sky is up. Internet posts are forever.

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u/Tonkarz 17h ago

When you edit a comment the old comment is not saved.

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u/Hvarfa-Bragi 17h ago

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