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by scbrg 2244 days ago
> No, we have always been able to edit communication until the internet, because conversations/everything has always been unrecorded or very hard to access the archives of.

Spoken, yes. Written, no. But sure, most communication is (and certainly was) spoken, I'll give you that.

> Have you never had an argument get to 'you said this', 'no I did not' ? We even edit our own messaging in our heads.

I'm afraid I have. They suck tremendously. Do you think these arguments are a good thing?

> We make mistakes, why can't we correct them?

We can. We post a correction. "Sorry, I meant to say this."

> (We are talking autocomplete of spelling and grammar here at the original level)

Unless you produce a magic AI that lets people fix only spelling mistakes and nothing else, we're not talking about just that.

> And since obviously your end can have a setting/hack/default to keep the original anyway I'm not sure what the fear is.

Most communication platforms these days are actually not controlled by the users, so no, I can't have a setting for it. And if I have a hack for it (which probably requires a tremendous amount of technical expertise, out of reach for most people), I'm almost certainly in violation of some EOL and may get banned. Heck, in some crazy jurisdictions I could even end up in trouble with the law.