Yes, it is disgusting that Musk and company have removed 2011-2014 photos (and videos?) from the deadbird site.
But it's also yet another reminder to everyone: DO NOT completely entrust what you create to highly centralized, privately controlled (sometimes by evil people) cloud-based services.
At the very least, have backups -- local and off-site -- from which you re-post what you've created.
Dan Gillmor /
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