Remember that once material is gone

[moniss]

it's gone. Like the CIA torture videos, Iran-Contra documents, Secret Service phone data around January 6th etc. No real accountability but it's still gone and whatever it would have proved or shown is left to speculation forever.

Then there are the things we still aren't allowed to see like the full Mueller Report or the full CIA Torture Report. Since we aren't allowed to see it for all practical purposes what it would reveal is also left to speculation.

But hey maybe America will just move on and swallow more lies because Crumb the 1st does another distraction and announces a whopper that the Saudis are going to invest $500 trillion in the next 3 months or that he has brought down food prices.

[jfz9580m]

1. Hell that's my policy on everything good or bad

Even of mine. It’s my policy in science and with data generally.
The only time I am for data sharing though is of course with proper constraints.

But destruction of data can only be acceptable when it is the tritest stuff, not anything controversial whichever way the winds blow.

The reason I am extra draconian about privacy is merely that tacky creeps shouldn’t monetize shit turning life into a spectacle. Deleting stuff is just not okay ever.

And that’s my very mundane and driveling existence unlike these creeps. And a society that loses a sense of shame is a lost cause.

[usonian]

2. We'll find other ways to expose the plot.

Remember Al Capone? Not personally, but his "crime" was financial, and the web was spun around the world.

Crypto can be traced. It's done all the time, basically with open source intelligence.

The point is to expose and break up the ring.

"You can't always get what you want"
But just exposing the ring and its players will take away the RW's "air supply" and some key figures all over the world.


More here:

https://www.democraticunderground.com/?com=view_post&forum=1002&pid=20815889

[2naSalit]

4. Lies are like...

An awl in a cloth bag.

[ancianita]

3. If it's posted online it never wholly disappears. Accessing it online will be the obstacle.

If we're constantly distracted by AI generated content, it can take over humans' sense of reality. AND the Internet. And then what does human judgment become, and is human thought and judgment valuable anymore.

Indifference to what's happening TO the Internet will be humans' big problem -- if humans want to stay connected to reality, the Internet is fast becoming its own reality, and not the accurate source for Reality.