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But, you as the website operator don’t own that content either? Certainly I have some level of expectation that if I delete something, it may very well actually be gone, right? And further, that Twitter taking steps to do exactly that in places they control is reasonable?

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> Certainly I have some level of expectation that if I delete something, it may very well actually be gone, right?

Really? For me this is like saying that just because you stop actively publishing a book, people can never quote it again. That's clearly not true, right?

Edit: or because I didn't distribute recordings of a speech I made, newspapers can't quote me

But I am not, nor do I aspire to be, a public figure. For notable people, and most certainly politicians, I might tend to agree with you, but not for the general case.

People who aren't public figures get quoted in print all the time. The only way to not be quoted is to never say anything.

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