I'm an Israel supporter but I think the way these companies just hand waive is endlessly infuriating. Whether it's this or Youtube removing covid "misinformation" or other things (from actual experts) - hey, we never have to explain anything to you; "violates our community standards" suffices as an explanation (but, god help you if you actually report things that need to be taken down, for very good reason - then, suddenly, it DOESN'T violate ANY of our community standards!)
They should all be in prison, most likely
dghlsakjg•2h ago
Note: I am making no comment on the conflict itself here.
I understand that journalists have to go where the people are, but if your archive strategy relies on posts on social media, you do not, in fact, have an archive strategy.
propagandist•2h ago
First, he's under no obligation to archive his posts. It's on the world to archive them and prosecute the perpetrators of the documented crimes.
Second, the platform in question has, at the highest levels, intelligence officers from the entity committing those crimes.
Third, humanity has failed in its moral duty yet again, and this sort of "neutral" commentary that ends with a glib remark directed at a murdered non-combatant is shocking to the conscience.
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jasonlotito•1h ago
He is dead. Any backups he might have made might be long gone, or otherwise, unknown. What we do know is that the IG posts AND the backups done via the Internet Archive are gone.
So, my question to you is: where can you set a backup for no cost, available from Gaza, and that won't be taken down 3rd parties. Note, anything online has the potential to have data removed, and even then, we don't know what other backup locations he might have been using. We just know what was available now to the public.
In addition, let's say he had hardware backups (which are now gone after he was killed), or let's say just a random S3 bucket. We have to know about it. Know how to get access to it. And hope that AWS doesn't nuke it because someone asks them to do it.
It's a big mess, and blaming him for not having more backups than an entire country is incredible.
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elygre•1h ago
We do know that he is dead, though.
dghlsakjg•37m ago
My comment only addressed the possible failure to understand the importance, and controversy, of this work and publishing exclusively on social media. Important and controversial things should not be entrusted to social media.
I say this as a former AP photo stringer, who has been in handcuffs, forest fires, and shoot outs in that job. My concern is, genuinely, that socially relevant documentary work needs to be held outside of social media for this exact reason.
vkou•2h ago
It's acting as a willing propaganda mouthpiece for absolutely abominable people. If they were doing nothing wrong, they wouldn't be hiding the truth of what they did from the world.
burkaman•1h ago