'Please don't delete accounts of people who have passed on.'
is so controversial that Twitter's previous leadership had made a similar announcement back in 2019, but when met with intense user pushback, chose to forgo such a purge.
"This will include several people who are no more but their words and interactions still remain as a fond memory to their friends/family,"A notable name in the comments? Doom creator, VR pioneer, and chief Meta antagonist John Carmack, who took a different — but compelling — offense to the purge. "Some may scoff at any allusion between Twitter and ancient libraries, but while the burning of the library of Alexandria was a tragedy, scrolls and books that were tossed in the trash just because nobody wanted to keep them are kind of worse," he added. "Save it all!"
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