r/technology • u/Well_Socialized • 24d ago

Social Media Reddit Is Restricting Luigi Mangione Discourse—but It’s Even Weirder Than That: The website is attacking the users that made it the front page of the internet.

https://web.archive.org/web/20250313203719/https://slate.com/technology/2025/03/reddit-elon-musk-luigi-mangione-censorship.html
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u/fragonomicon 24d ago

The practice of manual reproduction was widespread, because printed texts could be traced back to the source.

To anybody that's unaware, every printer you've ever owned has had Printer Tracking Dots specifically so your government can identify the unique source of printed paper.

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u/Lucky-Clown 24d ago

Time to look into refurbishing some of these old printers

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u/ILPC 24d ago

No printer is safe no matter how old. They were added from the beginning. The very first xerox had them, there are declassified cold war intelligence docs about it. They used them early in the BTK investigation they could tell his notes came from the college printers in wichita but weren't able to narrow it more than that until he sent that disc decades later.

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u/Sadrith_Mora 24d ago

Ah, a reason to break out the ole' mimeograph