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> “When Twitter says, ‘We can’t do this,’ I don’t believe that,” said Hany Farid, chairman of the computer science department at Dartmouth College ... “There’s no fundamental technology or engineering limitation,” he said. “This is a business or policy decision. Unless the companies have decided that they just can’t be bothered.”

Can anyone comment whether this is true or not? It seems rather trivial to create new accounts and post data. Is it just whack-a-mole or is there something more sophisticated that goes on?

parent bko 11 years ago

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