Reddit deletes surveillance 'warrant canary' in transparency report

Probably was done automatically. Or maybe youtube noticed the jump in traffic to your video due to your comment, and decided to run it through content ID now that it started getting attention.

It's amazing how fast Reddit user content gets read, re-reported, or acted on.

Yup. which brings up a pretty important point that it's important to be careful what you post online, for example even relatively inconsequential shit like sharing a controversial opinion, even if you promptly delete it. It's a lot easier to track down the actual identity of a person behind an account then a lot of people realize, from the likes of small details shared here and there over a few years that add up, to even things like writing style being compared. I honestly wouldn't be too surprised if within the decade (or even now?) companies that offer the service of identifying people in such an in depth manner will become a thing, for the purpose of vetting applicants applying for important jobs or for people campaigning for some office that want to get some dirt on their opponents.

There's a few sites that straight up publicly re-host everything posted on Reddit (both submissions and comments,) not to mention numerous organizations, both private and government, that back up and save everything on Reddit the second it's posted, (as well as pretty much all other forums and social media sites.) Sometimes it's for good reasons, like archiving the internet, but if they can do it, so can pretty much anyone else for less-noble reason, if they have the resources and think they have something to gain by data-mining all of that material.

Even though a lot of sites do attempt to keep their users anonymous, they cant really guarantee that unless they totally block access to the site... what I'm getting at is, you should still be careful that you don't write something stupid that could come and bite you in the ass ten years down the line, especially if you have a public life or intend to run for public office at some point in the future.

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