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Re: Reddit appears to be restoring edited/deleted comments

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Post by soggybread »

tanepiper wrote: post #286

Today, Reddit has started a data rollback. What they've done though it go way too far - so far they are undeleting posts from over a decade ago. Reddit didn't actually delete anything, only soft deletes. In the image posted there are also cached thumbnails from YouTube - those videos no longer exist. I've already had one trans person confirm there are posts appearing from before their transition. The IPO is really go…

I wonder if this includes content that was removed for violating terms and conditions like threats, doxxed info, images. If so, there might be some legal issues that arise from this no?

Re: Reddit appears to be restoring edited/deleted comments

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Post by tanepiper »

oh_sigh wrote: post #309
tanepiper wrote: post #296

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Yes and the irony is I was in Oslo today, showing to people within the EU our PoC demo for IKEA.com - on how we can provide recommendations with no third party data - and with the idea of consumers controlling exactly what is used to provide it - including the right to delete it all. This is the way we're going - totally the opposite way.

Is your poc or a further description of it up online anywhere?

Not yet - we built it in 3 days, as a Chrome extension (so it works on IKEA.com) on top of our Knowledge Graph as sessionless - it was part of the OntoCommons innovation lab hackathon (https://www.linkedin.com/posts/michelamagas_ontology-commons...)

Re: Reddit appears to be restoring edited/deleted comments

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Post by Hans_Dorn »

BonoboIO wrote: post #308
tanepiper wrote: post #286

Today, Reddit has started a data rollback. What they've done though it go way too far - so far they are undeleting posts from over a decade ago. Reddit didn't actually delete anything, only soft deletes. In the image posted there are also cached thumbnails from YouTube - those videos no longer exist. I've already had one trans person confirm there are posts appearing from before their transition. The IPO is really go…

Why are you downvoted?

blames u/spez

Re: Reddit appears to be restoring edited/deleted comments

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Post by AlanYx »

jlpcsl wrote: post #294

Wow wow, Isn't this the violation of the Europen GDPR privacy laws. If you deletd it then they should actually be deleted, otherwise you are violating the laws.

Add that to the minefield of GDPR issues Reddit has to confront. They've provided the whole Reddit comment corpus to researchers, several located in Europe, though the PushShift dataset. There are no real privacy controls on that dataset (anyone can query it) and apparently no way to process removal requests.

Re: Reddit appears to be restoring edited/deleted comments

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Post by none_to_remain »

A4ET8a8uTh0 wrote: post #314
6c696e7578 wrote: post #302

Obvious LOL. Stupid question, but did anyone ever /trust/ online social sites to do what they claimed when it came to managing user data?

Who knows. Maybe this will actually make people hesitate to trust everything to a private 'platform'. Maybe this will finally be the straw that breaks the camel's back and maybe even makes people consider the real issue at play ( platforms vs protocols ) and maybe even make appropriate conclusions. I am a dreamer.

For a "protocol" of any note, wouldn't you expect there to be various actors archiving everything posted via that protocol?

Re: Reddit appears to be restoring edited/deleted comments

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Post by 404mm »

eq88 wrote: post #311

With how quickly Reddit and Twitter have destroyed their reputations, it almost feels like it's been intentional to bring down our giant public communication platforms as we enter a new age of misinformation.

I dare to argue that the reputation was destroyed for people who are less likely to be influenced by media. In other words, critical thinker’s probably didn’t trust the platforms just for their reputation to begin with.
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