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whamlastxmas on July 29, 2025 | parent | context | favorite | on: Tea app leak worsens with second database exposing...

It isn’t that straight forward. If you wrote it and it got published, it still counts as published even if you didn’t publish it yourself. The crux of libel is that you made it permanent somehow by writing it.

Gigachad on July 29, 2025 [–]

Who's to say you wrote it and that the hackers didn't just insert that in the dataset?

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