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by headShrinker 1095 days ago
What is right, and moral is I and we should have the ability to delete something I wrote 13 years ago. Not allowing users to delete past comments because the website fears they will lose value, is taking advantage of unpaid labor. I own my words, that's my value to give or take. What is right is offering a delete link to posts and accounts. Even Facebook does this. Facebook.
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shagie 1095 days ago
Under what theory are your comments personally identifying information and that they don't also fall into publicly provided information?

    (2) “Personal information” does not include publicly available information or lawfully obtained, truthful information that is a matter of public concern. For purposes of this paragraph, “publicly available” means: information that is lawfully made available from federal, state, or local government records, or information that a business has a reasonable basis to believe is lawfully made available to the general public by the consumer or from widely distributed media; or information made available by a person to whom the consumer has disclosed the information if the consumer has not restricted the information to a specific audience. “Publicly available” does not mean biometric information collected by a business about a consumer without the consumer’s knowledge.
Your ownership of your words is not in question.

From https://www.ycombinator.com/legal/

    By uploading any User Content you hereby grant and will grant Y Combinator and its affiliated companies a nonexclusive, worldwide, royalty free, fully paid up, transferable, sublicensable, perpetual, irrevocable license to copy, display, upload, perform, distribute, store, modify and otherwise use your User Content for any Y Combinator-related purpose in any form, medium or technology now known or later developed.
Your ownership does of your words does not mean that you can revoke the license that you provided to Y Combinator to display the comments. Trying to do that would take significantly more legal effort than sending a request to randomize your account identifiers.
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sgbeal 1095 days ago
By that logic, anyone who's said something on TV or radio which they regret, or was recorded committing a crime, should also have a "right" to have it somehow wiped from the historical record.

"You can't stop the signal, Mal."

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