I do not live in California or the EU. What can I do?

  • quinnly@lemmy.ml
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    1 year ago

    Why would they need your permission? They own the content you posted to their website.

    I’d say just ignore it and move on. It’s over. Focus on what what matters.

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      1 year ago

      I don’t think that would hold up in court.

      From what i remember, the Reddit TOS says that your content is your content.

      And rightfully so, or else they’d be responsible for everything that everyone posts as if they posted it themselves.

      You only give them the license to publish your posts, but if a user edits or deletes their content, i don’t think they’d have a legal right to undelete and post and repiblishing it without you agreeing to it (again).

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      1 year ago

      If they want to adhere to EU laws I think they might have to, might still fuck over people from other places though.

      • MrScottyTay@sh.itjust.works
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        1 year ago

        The content is fine, but anything associated with them that can be deemed as identifiable needs to go if OP requests the right to be forgotten. Most services will just “censor” the username by replacing it with “deleted” or something. They don’t have to get rid of everything else.

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          1 year ago

          What if a comment itself includes some kind of personal data such as a link that explicitly ties the comment to a person?

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            1 year ago

            Don’t post shit that can be linked to you easily.

            People have some weird expectation from a shiti online business. Take of your shit, you can’t rely on the counterparties to protect you.

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              Originally I didn’t mind tying the comment to my identity, but once I decide to delete my account, I want all such ties gone. Case in point: links to open-source projects with my name in them.

              “You shouldn’t have posted it in the first place” is just victim blaming.

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      1 year ago

      Yup - I pretty much said this was one of the things that could’ve happened to people who were adamant about deleting their comments.

      To OP: thinking since there’s no GDPR compliance for the US, I wouldn’t be surprised Reddit was able to go “uhhhh” and do this anyways. If you were a citizen in the EU, then something could probably be done, but otherwise I wouldn’t be super optimisitic.