Readit NewsMissiles as a tool to do damage don't necessarily make other peoples lives easier. But it might make the lives easier of those who wish to do damage.
Technology is a tool, which can be used to make lives easier and harder.
"LERS is a system in which a verified law enforcement agent can securely submit a legal request for user data, view the status of the submitted request, and download the response submitted by Google.
If you are a sworn law enforcement agent or other government official who is authorized to issue legal process in connection with an official investigation, you may submit your request through this system."
--is not the height of transparency, though.
Yes, all social media have open channels with law enforcement. That's because social media have legal obligations and when someone comes to a moderator claiming to be a law enforcement officer working on a kidnapping or preventing a terrorist attack and needing time-sensitive help to save lives, you don't want the moderator to have to guess whether that's a real emergency or a hoax.
It's... not a secret. If you live in a democracy, you can quickly find out the name of these channels, they have websites.
Source: I've been part of a moderation team. Not on something that large, though.
That's interesting, can you link to one?
That's an assertion. One I don't accept without some strong backing. The extra 5 minutes might mean a discussion somewhere is a bit longer leading to valuable insight. It might mean just trying that last thing before finishing up which you wouldn't try because it shouldn't work anyway. You can imagine any world changing situation which only occurs because of those extra few minutes.
> Why should that problem be prioritized over everything else?
Because it's burning away lifetimes. Besides no one would have complained if this was in the game for a few months and then fixed. It was in the game for YEARS. That is not "prioritzed over everything else" that is "the priority is so low you have to dive to the mariana trench to find the ticket".
I need to see some data on this.
It's a little ironic to come down negatively on digital data because it can be accidentally deleted easily, when you're comparing it to a library that literally burned down.
> Digital record preservation is hard and gets a lot harder the longer term you try to do it.
Physical record preservation is not walk in the park, either. It's not like paper can just be stored in any old fashion and be expected to not degrade over time.
And with digital records, you can back them up in several different physical locations. With physical records, you're one fire, one burst pipe, one mistake in storage or handling from losing it.
There have been significant improvements in structure fireproofing and firefighting in the past 2071 years.
https://www.nytimes.com/2023/11/14/world/middleeast/israel-g...
Sure, if you also want to say water doesn't freeze at 0C or boil at 100C. In practice if an author casually leaves out the variables needed to calculate ground speed from mach or airspeed, it usually means they're doing engineering calculations set at the ISA standard day model (sea level, 15C, no humidity).