• Ffkhrocks@lemmy.world
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    1 year ago

    So section 230 protects social media platforms regarding content users post.

    If they reinstate a user deleted post who owns it?

    Hoping this blows up in their faces as it’s a really shitty course of action to take.

  • OurTragicUniverse@kbin.social
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    1 year ago

    Fuck. I really don’t like this.

    So many trauma and support subreddits get deeply personal and identifying posts and comments about horrific shit people (me included) lived through and were trying to cope with, which got deleted several hours after posting for privacy reasons.

    If this content gets revived by reddit, it puts a lot of vulnerable people in danger as it this type of ‘content’ is often harvested by users of other platforms who share these stories with huge audiences.

  • jarfil@lemmy.ml
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    1 year ago

    This is why I’m not deleting my Reddit account, it’s all the “power” we users have over what’s going on, they’ll have to ban me to stop editing my stuff… and then we’ll do the GDPR dance.

  • speedyturtle@lemmy.fmhy.ml
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    This is messed up. I just recently deleted my account (used poweredeletesuite first to edit all my comments to a “.”) before finding out about the API stuff. With it deleted, if they’ve restored my posts, I have literally no way to ever delete any of it again. It’s not the end of the world for me fortunately (it could be bad for some people that may have revealed things that are too personal or could get them doxxed), but there were definitely things I’d like to have removed permanently.

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      This is why I’m not deleting my Reddit account, it’s all the “power” we users have over what’s going on, they’re gonna have to ban me to stop editing my stuff… and then we’re gonna do the GDPR dance.

  • BrooklynMan@lemmy.ml
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    I sanitized all of my comments before I deleted them. They’re welcome to bring them back. it’s all just a protest message anyway. But for those who didn’t, this is really shitty.

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      I think you should definitely try, but I don’t think it’ll work. According to this stackexchange question they could argue that deleting your comments would break the cohesiveness of the discussion and make the available information incomplete.

      Art.17, 3a states that the right to be forgotten is not applicable if processing of the data is required to exercise freedom of information. So I don’t think posts or comments are affected by the GDPR as long as they don’t contain any information that would identify a user

      • onceuponaban@kbin.social
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        1 year ago

        So what you’re saying is, mass-edit all your comments to contain your full name right before requesting deletion.