Apparently Elon scrubbed the Maine shooter’s Twitter account, because Elon was frequently featured in his view history - eviltoast

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    Elon Musk, Tucker Carlson, Jim Jordan, McCarthy, Dinesh D’Souza, Donald Trump, Jordan Peterson, “endwokeness” - wonderful influences for a fucked up man-child.

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      I would assume that they retain the data and are just hiding it from public view. That way they can fulfill one of their organizational goals, trying to prevent useful or accurate information from reaching the public, but still have the ability to respond to a subpoena.

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      I used to work for a company with a product for putting a legal hold on people’s accounts. It archived the data off to a safe place, with a signature so you can tell it wasn’t tampered with. By default, it kept things six months, but as soon as it ran, you’re free to delete the public copy

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      Every social media for as long as I can remember removes the profiles of mass shooters. Youtube does it, twitter used to do it, facebook does it, etc. Do you really think the fbi wouldn’t be able to get the data because an account was removed from the platform? use your brain people

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        I know it’s absurd. Even if I had proof of something illegal, I have zero authority to do anything about it. I’m just venting because I’m annoyed, and I’m sick of Musk’s constant bullshit.

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        It helps establish a motive for the killer, which is very important in a court of law. Knowing why someone did something affects sentencing, for example.

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          Wonder how many illiterate people know the word “illiterate”… 🤔

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            Here’s a fun read for you: functional illiteracy. It’s the phenomenon whereby a person is capable of “reading”, as in sounding out words, but functionally incapable of extracting meaning from them beyond the painfully obvious.

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              I have the opposite happen to me with Chinese, like I know 危高电压 means “danger high electric pressure (voltage)”, but have no idea how to sound it out. Dysfunctional literacy? 😄

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                Haha, I think that’s usually just called “learning a language from books”. My magyar (Hungarian) suffers from a similar issue.

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      that scene from The Boys when the guy gets radicalized through online and TV sources to ultimately end up killing someone only for the exact people who encouraged that shit to distance themselves from the situation rapidly is so well done and probably flew right fucking over the head of most republican voters who watch that show

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        Almost, they realized they were one of the ones being made fun of. To them, The Boys “went woke.”

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      We call them Mainers here in Maine. There’s thousands of them. My only hope is they’re rethinking basing their personality off hate. I doubt it though.

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      They know they have to stay mask on, no matter what.

      They tried the whole “haha, we were nazis all along!” thing with the tiki torches and Unite the Right rally. They lost their jobs, families and the platform they’d built out of plausible deniability.

      You could catch them dressed as Hitler, with a hand written copy of Elders of Zion, in the middle of lynching a jew, and they’d still claim “the left just calls everyone who disagrees with them a Nazi”.

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        Does seem like he and other had a brain brake around same time. Or could just be wealth effects.

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      Same reason he skipped out of South Africa before the SADF conscripted him into the Apartheid war machine… him and his ilk believe the dirty and bloody work is beneath them.

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      “Terrorists” are the bad guys, you want “freedom fighters” (fighting for your freedoms, of course).

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      Its hard to touch billionaires until they are directly involved. Example-trump otherwise nothing going to happen, his lawyers will deal with it. He won’t even know that FBI knocked on his door.

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      fbi has all the data it needs. social media platforms have always removed mass shooters profiles.

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      literally every social media platforms removes the accounts of mass shooters. not anything new at all

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          i’m saying it is not atypical by any means for a social media platform to remove profiles of mass shooters. for as long as I can remember, every single time it happens and their social media is found, and it’s subsequently removed. i know this sub is dedicated to hating Musk but you just look stupid when you spin narratives like this. People in this thread are calling for his arrest over it saying that he’s hiding evidence of a crime.

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            Facebook does the same thing, and it doesn’t hide evidence because banning someone’s account doesn’t remove their profile’s data. It’s still there for foi requests, warrants, and subpoenas. These social media companies aren’t gonna host a mass shooter’s profile. It’s like how they banned Trump, that wasn’t “hiding evidence,” and it’s likely if you hate Elon you were also loving that Twitter banned Trump.

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            Arguably analyzing such profiles would likely show that nearly all nowadays are at least in part radicalized via social media. Turns out if you rattle millions of grenades a few explode.

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              liking some ben shapiro tweets does not mean you are radicalized by social media lol. people will seek out things online they agree with

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            It’s blatantly obvious he was trying to hide the shooters connection to Republicans and Trump. Come on now.

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                What is evidence?! I’ll just pout like a child and call the system rigged rather than look at my own wrong doing! What is this shit?! Who makes these decisions?!

                • cricket97@lemmy.world
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                  can you find me any major mass shooter who had their social media profile stay around after the news broke

                  Here’s a source for you https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2022-07-06/tech-firms-delete-mass-shooters-accounts-but-it-s-not-enough

                  Mass shooting events like the one that happened July 4 near Chicago typically set off an-all-too-common chain of procedures at tech companies: unearth the attacker’s online presence, capture possibly incriminating posts and quickly shut their accounts.

                  proof that it’s a common procedure to do exactly this across pretty much all social media platforms. interested to hear what sort of stupid shit you have to say back to this.

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          can you name an example of a major mass shooter who didn’t have their profile nuked by social media platforms?

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    “iTs BeCaUsE tHeY tEcAh EvOlUtiOn iN sCHoOLs aNd aLlOw aBoRtIoNs!!!”

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    Look at whatever this guy was against and support those things.