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A very interesting side of this is that restricting the reach of comments also makes something like Scuttlebutt difficult to surveil. There simply isn't some kind of global state that anyone can easily look at to see everything that's happening. Someone who wants to see everything will either need to infiltrate many different social circles or intercept messages. That's not to say a powerful nation state that really wanted to couldn't infiltrate well enough to see what's going on, but it would definitely be a lot harder than with a standard social media format where there's a central store that contains everything.
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