Trump signs social media executive order

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[–]kokolokoNightcrawler 2 insightful - 1 fun2 insightful - 0 fun3 insightful - 1 fun -  (4 children)

How does one prove a disappeared post without the access to a database and the servers...It's a complex issue. If you have thousands of lines of code responsible for keeping full functionality of comments for all users across the board, that's thousands of coggss in a machine that need inspecting to determine what actually happened. And, i'm sure with bigger socials, it's millions of lines.

[–]Canbot 2 insightful - 1 fun2 insightful - 0 fun3 insightful - 1 fun -  (0 children)

You prove it by having multiple computers with different accounts show that it does not come up when they look at the post.

If the defense wants to claim that it is a software issue and not intentional it is on them to prove it.

[–]magnora7 2 insightful - 1 fun2 insightful - 0 fun3 insightful - 1 fun -  (2 children)

Saidit has about 1.1 million lines of code, for example, using 8 different programming languages. So yeah...

[–]jamesK_3rd 1 insightful - 1 fun1 insightful - 0 fun2 insightful - 1 fun -  (0 children)

But as with any lawsuit they'll have a team of coders looking over the code.

Additionally, it isn't hard to look at certain macros, classes, or particular repetitive processes that would generally be used to censor or shadow certain content. It's the same when you grab the source from git, unless your doing a complete rework, lots of things are placed intuitively.

And ironically, knowing devs and the fact that most of the code is thought to be proprietary and never to be seen, they'd likely have some interesting comments on the code.