The Good, the Bad and the Ugly
Office of public circulation · CDMPR
Central Directorate for the Memory of the People’s Republic
An interactive demonstration of why ‘deleted’ does not always mean deleted.
Create an entry, delete it, and see what remains.
The public feed
Everything looks clean.
Add a text post and choose who can see it. Preview the feed as a public visitor, a friend, or yourself.
This simulated audience controls which posts appear below.
The delete controls
Make it disappear.
Manage all active entries, including Friends and Only Me posts. Delete hides an entry from every audience.
This record is no longer available to the public.
Retention status is governed separately.The simulated database
Deleted, but still here.
The entry still exists. Its visibility state changed from visible to hidden.
Fast and reversible. The record stays stored, but queries exclude it.
The row is actually removed. Backups, logs, caches, and legal retention may still complicate true erasure.