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by DonHopkins 1067 days ago
HN could milk the whales by monetizing deleting your account and individual posts. The higher your karma, the more it costs.
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Hehe, don't give them any ideas. How are you otherwise? I should come and visit. Or you should come and visit. Or both!
If you really wanna, you can ask manually for deletion and they will do their best to comply if you justify why you need to delete it.
It shouldn't need justification though. And it really should be automated.

Apparently the YC lawyers are convinced that the current mechanism is GDPR compliant, I'm not so sure about that.

I guess their lawyers ignore the GDPR because they are not a business doing business with europeans.

If this forum had any kind of paid offerings this might differ, but what do you want, them to block the whole EU a la Threads/Bard?

As I understand it, this is due to the limitations of current (mod) tools, and justification just means you have to provide a human for some good reason to do -free work- for you. Like fearing being doxxed or whatever.

I dunno, I'm a happy member of this forum and I appreciate dang and how the moderation works here, it could be better and automated but this is a small niche tech forum after all and not some giant social media network

> I guess their lawyers ignore the GDPR because they are not a business doing business with europeans.

That's not how the GDPR works. The GDPR does not kick in when there is a commercial transaction, it kicks in when you're talking about data, specifically data provided by EU subjects.

That's not how law works, you cannot force other countries to abide by your laws just because you say so, well you can if you're the US, and you say so (but there's also the subtle threat of physical violence if needed)

YMMV

You can also actually just ask dang for it via email, and if you've good reasons for it they will remove it.
Why should you have a good reason? It's your data, fullstop.
Because there's no automated system, (and I guess, since there's not lots of requests, no need for it)

And so for you to want to utilise a finite resource (moderation time) for something that should benefit you, you better have a good reason for it?

Why should companies go above and beyond to comply with laws that don't affect their country or business doings?

The only reason a US company might comply with EU directives, is if they plan to do business in the EU, not if they're storing data or not from an European citizen

The content generated by you benefits the site tho