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[–] Gracchi ago 

You people so damn determined to make the internet a permanent record of everyone's lives to follow them around and hound them for perpetuity is scary.

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[–] sneakybells ago 

They fixed a bug in the api that let you see deleted tweets. Everybody needs to fucking chill. You can still use bots to automatically screenshot all those politician's tweets. Nothing is ever deleted on the internet.

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[–] tehfcae 0 points 3 points (+3|-0) ago 

Twitter: respecting privacy, but only for rich politicians.

I see tweets of stupid things people have said all over the internet, but because they were just random people, Twitter does nothing about it.

Buzzfeed, facebook, the Huffington Post... Correct me if I am wrong, but I don't think they've even gotten a cease and desist notice from twitter about this.

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[–] Warden 0 points 3 points (+3|-0) ago 

Imagine how nerve-racking – terrifying, even – tweeting would be if it was immutable and irrevocable? No one user is more deserving of that ability than another. Indeed, deleting a tweet is an expression of the user’s voice.

Then... don't tweet stupid shit?

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[–] getfitroxana ago 

Twitter is so ridiculous, but at least this seems like a nonpartisan move? Like, it isn't just about protecting one specific group of people like feminists, it's about protecting all of them? I don't know, the reason could be worse.

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[–] weezkitty 0 points 13 points (+13|-0) ago  (edited ago)

When you say/post something public, you can't just retract it. Deletion is a privilege and not a right

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[–] Lag-wagon 0 points 4 points (+4|-0) ago 

So what's the new voat of twitter?

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[–] Kotoran 0 points 3 points (+3|-0) ago 

People don't use Twitter because it is a good platform, they use it because it is trendy. "Voat of Twitter" implies the platform is good enough that someone actually wants to revive it.

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[–] TopShelfPrivilege 1 point 11 points (+12|-1) ago 

Hopefully nothing. The people Twitter gave a voice to never deserved to have one.

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[–] Turnip_Time ago 

What about all those Arab spring protesters that organized via Twitter?

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[–] Ladderjack 0 points 1 point (+1|-0) ago 

My first reaction when reading this is that you deserve money for saying something so smart. An upvoat just doesn't do this justice.

Pro-tip: I'm not actually gonna give you money. . .jus' sayin', though.

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[–] RonaldRayGuns 0 points 14 points (+14|-0) ago  (edited ago)

Twitter is gay. You can only get in trouble using it (there's no winners only people who haven't lost yet), and the corporation is anti free speech.

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[–] Karunamon 0 points 2 points (+2|-0) ago 

How is this not true of any social network anywhere ever?

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[–] Cassiekin ago 

Nobody said this wasn't the case. Hell, I choose not to use social media because I know I'd say something crass and get fired for it.

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[–] RonaldRayGuns 0 points 3 points (+3|-0) ago 

Who said it was?

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