[crazygringo]

I'm fascinated by the idea that you could try to take down your own Usenet posts based on the idea that you have copyright over them.

Surely there must be some law or legal precedent that in the act of posting to a public forum, you inherently "license" that content to be freely reproduced, at a minimum for non-commercial purposes as part of distribution in the context of the forum? (But nobody can correct your posts and sell them as a book though.)

I'm wondering if IA gave up because they thought they would lose, or it would be too expensive to go to court in the first place.

[qingcharles]

I actually gave this advice to a woman recently who was trying to get her images removed from Reddit. They weren't sexual enough for Reddit to remove the images her ex was posting, so I told her to just DMCA them all. Not ideal, but there you have it.

[rikroots]

> I'm fascinated by the idea that you could try to take down your own Usenet posts based on the idea that you have copyright over them.

One does not simply walk into the Poetry newsgroups. Their strophes are guarded by more than just X-No-Archive message headers. There is evil there that does not sleep, and the grey-locked troll hunters are ever watchful ...

[londons_explore]

Most interpretations of the GDPR in Europe allow anyone to remove/anonymize anything they have written and published online.