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by lukan 772 days ago
"Hard no. There is such a thing as the right to forget."

This only exists as a wish, but is not written in stone and some people actually disagree to that.
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whstl 772 days ago
Actually it does exists, as part of GDPR and then added into the law of individual EU nations.

Whether it applies to Stack Overflow posts is another discussion. IMO it doesn't due to Creative Commons licensing.

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colejohnson66 772 days ago
The right to be forgotten does not mean you content has to be taken down, just that it no longer has to be associable with you.
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whstl 770 days ago
> The right to be forgotten does not mean you content has to be taken down

As with almost anything GDPR: it really depends on the content, on the website, on the situation. There's no clear cut answer that applies to all cases.

And copyright law also enters into the picture here, which is why I added the second paragraph.

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lxgr 772 days ago
As I understand it, the right to be forgotten is a related but distinct concept to the GDPR.
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