Trump signs social media executive order

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[–]kokolokoNightcrawler 2 insightful - 1 fun2 insightful - 0 fun3 insightful - 1 fun -  (5 children)

You'd need a warrant for that...This is how sjw censorship started in the first place. They started with disappearing videos, comments, posts, making them quarantined, cordoned, unsearchable and so on and on...As time passed, and they've gotten almost zero pushback from the lawmakers, they got more and more brazen where now they stand fully behind their totalitarian decisions.

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

You dont need a warrant, it's called discovery and is part of every lawsuit. If they want to use the algo as an excuse in court they have to prove it was the algo and the prosecution has the right to analyze it.

[–]kokolokoNightcrawler 2 insightful - 1 fun2 insightful - 0 fun3 insightful - 1 fun -  (3 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.

[–]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.