• mrmanager@lemmy.today
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      I don’t think they can just restore all comments and bypass the GDPR, that would be insane. It’s a very serious law in Europe.

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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

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        I think if that works it would be a great solution! Processing copyright claims is pretty time-consuming, so they‘d have to put a lot of work into it

        But the Reddit ToS states that by submitting content to their Services you

        grant [Reddit] a worldwide, royalty-free, perpetual, irrevocable, non-exclusive, transferable, and sublicensable license to use, copy, modify, adapt, prepare derivative works of, distribute, store, perform, and display Your Content

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    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.

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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’ll have to ban me to stop editing my stuff… and then we’ll do the GDPR dance.

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      I wish I kept mine.

      I’ve run PowerDelete, and if they restore my comments I cannot even log back in to edit/delete them again.

      Although I’d argue that restoring content the user has deleted without their consent, may also be considered a privacy violation. Maybe I’d posted something by accident, that I realized later I didn’t wanna share? All I’m saying is, it’s a dangerous road for them to take, as it exposes them to legal actions IMO.

      BTW my comments are fine, still showing up as deleted.

      Which is unfortunately not what I originally meant to do, but the tool does a poor job at warning to uncheck the delete checkbox. So after spending 5 minutes coming up with an impactful/helpful edit message pointing to my Lemmy profile and inviting people to get in touch if they needed that content absolutely (since I have a backup), I eventually messed up and run the tool with chained edit + DELETE actions. Yeah, that hurt a lil bit.

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    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.

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      More likely?

      No what’s more likely is that they want to show a lot of posts and comments in their statistics before they go public. They are trying to make the protests look like it’s nothing.

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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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    That is why you never edit anything in your database, only save a new version of it so you always can have a paper trail back with all the edits. Same with deleting, you just mark it as deleted. This data is worth a lot of money, they’d be stupid if they let the users destroy it.

    And yes it’s against the GDPR and so on, but which one of us will sue them?

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    Other then lemmy world is there any other instances we are connected to that I should know about? I am gonna add them to my old comments.