I mean like:
If someone were to say “Lets Kill [Name of Politician]” and it gets removed, its still in modlogs. So like, I think the law still count modlogs as being on your website. So its not gonna remove legal consequences. And also, its not really gonna stop other people sympathetic to your cause from reading it from the modlogs and potentially get inspired/radicalized to do the act.
So what’s the point? Modlogs, while providing transparency, seems counterproductive.
I agree to some extent with you.
But you should start reading here: https://www.astralcodexten.com/p/moderation-is-different-from-censorship
I believe there is a small set of information that should not only be moderated (not shown to people who don’t want to see it), but censored. I’m thinking especially of doxing. For that reason I think this is a real problem, that people’s personal information may still show up in mod logs.
Of course, on the Internet, you can’t really effectively control the spread of any (including this kind of) information at all.