Yes , that truth , was an useless change . <| sep |> 1 Just because he had access doesn ' t mean he has authorization to edit individual comments and make them appear as if they are coming from the original author . I guarantee you , the CEO of Google wouldn ' t pull up the gmail database and start editing my personal emails for fun one night because they know they don ' t have the company authorization to edit that database . 2 If he did have authorization in addition to access , a lawyer would have a difficult time defending that authorization because editing individual user comments especially to insult those who disagree with you probably wasn ' t in his job description or carried out as part of his normal job duties . 3 Regardless of whether he broke the law or didn ' t , the fact is he came close enough to make the company vulnerable to lawsuits and legal proceedings . Sometimes even if a company wins a legal battle , they still lose in the sense that they had to pay millions to defend themselves or their reputations this is why almost any company ' s ethics or compliance training will mention many times avoiding even the appearance of wrongdoing .