Oversight Orders Reddit To Preserve Deleted Posts In Clinton Investigation (thehill.com)

HockeyPuck writes: The House Oversight Committee has ordered Reddit to preserve deleted posts believed to be written by Paul Combetta, an IT technician the committee suspects may have deleted Hillary Clinton emails that were under subpoena. This follows up on an earlier report on reddit users' findings. Reddit users found that Combetta, through the username "StoneTear," requested help in relation to retaining and purging email messages after 60 days, and requested advice on how to remove a "VERY VIP" individual's email address from archived content. The Hill says in its report: "It's unclear what, exactly, the committee will be able to learn from the information Reddit preserves. According to the company's public policy for handling official requests, it maintains basic subscriber information, like IP logs, which identify the computer used to access a site. According to the policy, Reddit can maintain deleted records -- like a user's account -- for 90 days if it receives an official preservation order. Otherwise, the information will be subject to Reddit's 'normal retention or destruction schedules.'"

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[AmiMoJo]

You keep making that accusation, that I'm only interested in feelings, when I keep correcting you with facts and statistics.

I'm not interested in people feeling icky about ideas like trans people using the correct bathroom or gay people being married. I'm definitely not interested in people's comfort when they speak and demand freedom from repercussions.

Safe spaces are absolutely vital to anyone who cares about making a rational, informed decision. As John Stewart Mill pointed out, you should at least consider every argument, every point if view, and thus you need places where people can safely discuss controversial ideas. For some people that's a bar full of white supremacists, for others it's a meeting place set up by a student group.

You are not entitled to be part of every conversation.