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Re: Reddit appears to be restoring edited/deleted comments

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Post by anjc »

fabian2k wrote: post #6

Where does the idea come from that not allowing users to delete content is against the law/GPDR? You have the right to ask for deletion of personal information they store, and even that has certain limits. You don't have the right to force the company to delete content unless they granted you that right via the licence somehow. Whether this is a good or bad idea for a company to do is a different question. But I don'…

If you were to post on another public website "My name is X, and my Reddit username is Y", would your anonymous Reddit posts now be considered personal data?

I suppose this would constitute indirect identification of a data subject under GDPR?

Re: Reddit appears to be restoring edited/deleted comments

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Post by ghglkl »

xmdx wrote: post #48
nik736 wrote: post #3

This is crazy! I like the following comment on kbin: > I said it before and I say it again: if you have the patience to do so then make sure you overwrite your content with chatgpt generated content, as the future AI that will feed on your post HATE feeding on already AI generated stuff. It makes the AI diverge. People should not be deleting their posts but actually just replacing them with random AI generated conten…

Even that won't work because there are companies like Pushshift (I think it's pushshift anyway) that are constantly archiving comments, so they have the old comment and the overwritten one. I think you can request pushshift delete your data under GDPR so at least you can remove your data from there, but I believe they are not the only ones doing this.

Pushshift only blocked such data from being queried via their API. All these users' posts and comments are still in their data dumps, which now have tens of thousands of copies after being released as torrents.

Re: Reddit appears to be restoring edited/deleted comments

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Post by boomboomsubban »

hubraumhugo wrote: post #7

There has been a constant stream of negative top HN posts about Reddit for a few weeks now, even if they often get manually pushed down from the front page. Was there ever a comparable shitstorm on HN against a big corp? Will this go down as the fastest suicide of a social media company?

Musk has gotten several. The elonjet Twitter shit got days of 500+ comment posts, and that's just the most recent example I can think of. Twitter didn't die, I doubt reddit will.

Re: Reddit appears to be restoring edited/deleted comments

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Post by username332211 »

juujian wrote: post #79
scandinavian wrote: post #23

I really think they are just misunderstanding something. When I look at my profile, there's no comments, but I know there should be some. Isn't it more likely that when a subreddit you posted in goes private, the comments don't show up. The people in the linked thread ran the delete script after some subreddits went private. Now when some are made public again, so are their comments. Comments that were never deleted…

Also important to note that this is an indicator that Reddit has lost all trust from (this part of) the community. Even if that is a plausible explanations, many will not give Reddit's current management the benefit of doubt. I simply would not put it past Hoffman to be that petty that he would do it, he seems to be taking after Musk more and more lately. Wasted so much goodwill. That will be tough to navigate for th…

I wouldn't read too much into it. It's not like the reddit community wasn't prone to paranoid suppositions.

Just ask that moderator accused of being Ghislaine Maxwell.

Re: Reddit appears to be restoring edited/deleted comments

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Post by AndrewKemendo »

dmix wrote: post #20
nik736 wrote: post #3

This is crazy! I like the following comment on kbin: > I said it before and I say it again: if you have the patience to do so then make sure you overwrite your content with chatgpt generated content, as the future AI that will feed on your post HATE feeding on already AI generated stuff. It makes the AI diverge. People should not be deleting their posts but actually just replacing them with random AI generated conten…

I've actually been thinking about building this sort of thing as a Chrome extension, a generic comment/tweet deleting app. More for privacy reasons than protest ones. The web based services that do this via APIs never seem to stick around long which is why a browser extension makes more sense IMO. The AI thing is clever.

Please don’t, that just speeds up the Turing Syndrome

The last thing we need is for the internet to be harder to tell truth from fiction

[1]https://kemendo.com/blog/turing-syndrome.html

Re: Reddit appears to be restoring edited/deleted comments

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Post by explain »

nottorp wrote: post #57
scandinavian wrote: post #23

I really think they are just misunderstanding something. When I look at my profile, there's no comments, but I know there should be some. Isn't it more likely that when a subreddit you posted in goes private, the comments don't show up. The people in the linked thread ran the delete script after some subreddits went private. Now when some are made public again, so are their comments. Comments that were never deleted…

I don't think the delete function actually deletes anything. At best sets a flag. If i wrote public forum software, that's how I would do it and batch delete only comments that no one asked to undelete in at least a few months...

You can request your Reddit data under the GDPR, and this includes all of your deleted content. It is visible from your profile to Reddit staff.

Might have changed in the past 2 years, but unlikely.

Re: Reddit appears to be restoring edited/deleted comments

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Post by yasuocidal »

dizhn wrote: post #94

Little off topic but this kbin.social site seems really nice. Very short and clear privacy/terms, very good default settings, nice design. Slow though.

If i understood correctly the migration brought lots of users that were not expected and the instance is getting overwhelmed. It should get back on its feet if they mindfully upgrade it

Re: Reddit appears to be restoring edited/deleted comments

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Post by Algent »

theRBII wrote: post #80
Pyramus wrote: post #59

Earlier quoted context omitted.

No, check GDPR Article 4 (1): personal data means any information relating to an identified or identifiable person. The content of a post is not personal data (in general) but the things like user name etc are. The content is not relating to an identifiable person (in general) while the user name is. Shakespeare's poems are not personal data.

Depends on the content - not many people out there are directly doxxing themselves but indirectly? Maybe. From my post history on Reddit, you'd know where I live, my age, gender, job, relationship status and a good amount about places I've been and my interests. There are already websites that collate that info from a profile to give a summary of the user. Under GDPR, that quite possibly adds up to personal data rela…

Yep I agree, if you posted on a specific subreddit this is already personal information about yourself. There is no way they are not violating GDPR if they deny a request to delete (but I guess they can block direct deletion in bad faith and tell you to submit a direct request).

Re: Reddit appears to be restoring edited/deleted comments

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Post by lpcvoid »

ghglkl wrote: post #88

Am I the only one here who thinks it is actually quite reasonable to restore such comments? It's equivalent to a librarian restoring some of their books that have been vandalised by a disgruntled author.

The library bought those books and as such possess the physical copy. If somebody vandalizes it, that's destruction of property and bad.

Reddit never paid anybody. Reddit is made up of comments made by people, and those people can decide to delete these comments. Reddit is a for profit company looking to squeeze maximum shareholder value from the value provided by others people comments, and doesn't enjoy the same leniency that a public library would, IMHO.

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