• just_another_person@lemmy.world
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    8 hours ago

    Regardless of their intentions, you just can’t hope and wish the underlying systems to obey your wants.

    Think of it like you creating a “Choose Your Own Adventure” book, except when it says to go to page 43, that page is missing. Or a reference to a character later in the book was missing from previous pages.

    It’s a digital statement of record, and attempts to alter the history of said statement breaks everything in the “future” created in this system. If you try and go back to delete stuff, the record will be broken if you break a link to something previously created.

    They don’t have the manpower to dump and completely recreate the entire FBI database to solely remove Trump’s name from these files, and even if they did, there would still be references in documents to things that no longer exist, like “Evidence Document #328”, and then it shockingly doesn’t exist anymore? No fucking way.