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No, personal data in GDPR is much wider than American PII definition.
Maybe so, but stuff you post on public forums is not PII, neither by the American nor the European definition.
‘Personal data’ means any information relating to an identified or identifiable natural person (‘data subject’).
Note the weight of the word “any” here.
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It’s naive to think deleting solves the problem. Once you post something on the internet, it’s out there forever potentially. Someone could easily saved whatever you posted, even if it’s under NDA or it’s a NSFW pic.
This is technically true, but then why does any website bother with content moderation? It's one thing for something to be archived on a hard drive somewhere and another for it to be google-searchable.
But the site is under no obligation to keep your deleted content deleted.
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Exactly. And it's so sad when I find a thread that clearly had exactly the answer I was looking for to a question, with somebody replying "thanks so much that answers it perfectly!" only the answer itself was deleted. :(
A couple years ago I came across a deleted Reddit comment[1] and I wished that I could read it so badly I messaged the op and asked him what he said. He didn't remember, and I was hoping so badly it would've been restored after I read this news. Alas, it wasn't. [1] https://old.reddit.com/r/avoidchineseproducts/comments/eh80f...
I believe KitchenAid stand mixers [assembled in America](https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=0qKp-0h9P18), and the parts (edit: excepting the motor) do not appear to be sourced from China.\n\nHave a look around your local Ikea; a lot of their stuff, especially kitchen tools, are from Europe, Taiwan, etc, and not China. They label the source of all their stuff, so you can avoid stuff from China.\n\nZojirushi is a Japanese brand that makes all manner of appliances. Good quality. Work well. Hold up over time. Top-quality engineering.\n\nBlendtec blenders are also assembled in America. Their website casually avoid mentioning where parts are sourced, but they're at least an American firm.\n\nJapan also makes some pretty good knives, if you're in the market for those.\n\nFinally, there is always eBay. And for some appliances, such as toasters, you may in fact be able to get a better product than is available on shelves now.Earlier quoted context omitted.
This is technically true, but then why does any website bother with content moderation? It's one thing for something to be archived on a hard drive somewhere and another for it to be google-searchable.
It is done as a courtesy to users to improve their engagement with the site. But the site is under no obligation to keep your deleted content deleted.
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Money is just a convenient way to keep track of debt. Stop making it into some kind of proxy for all human need and utility.
I said nothing of money? Although, of course, what you say about money is true. In fact, I can see from my not deleted HN history that I wrote that money is just an IOU only three days ago. I guess there is some value in being able to look back on my work! But is it value enough? Human nature is to be transactional. If I offer you my time to write a comment for you, I am going to expect something in return. That in r…
I had most of mine re-appear, and Redact was failing to re-delete them (it would lose authentication the second it tried to delete a comment). So I just ran Nuke Reddit History and deleted them all again.
This seems like some kind of political act of aggression intended to threaten someone or create a putsch of some kind. What's going on?
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What business value did editing users comments out from under them? Still happened, though.
I’m not sure how that’s relevant to my question. He was drunk and being an idiot, that wasn’t a major management decision like disallowing deletion of comments which affects the entire platform. That would be unprecedented in the history of social media to only allow permanent comments. Im also very skeptical comment deletion is happening at such a scale to be meaningful vs the billion new comments they get a year. T…
Also, why do people who are defending him always refer to him being drunk? Is he granted some sort of “blame the booze” pass for those actions?
Requesting our own user data en masse is probably a good avenue of protest. Here's the link: https://www.reddit.com/settings/data-request
It seems that Reddit has stopped responding to data requests. If this is because their servers are overloaded, or if this is intentional, I'm not sure.