A fellow mod informed me that about it as I was laying in bed. Reddit sent a message to the mod team and after 1 hour demoded me. I didn’t even had time to see it, never-mind respond to it.
Looks like we rattled reddit enough to start shooting. There goes all that fancy talk about our protest not affecting them much.
Just FYI for now. It’s late here so I’ll see how we proceed tomorrow.
I think this calls for the subreddit to get
rm -rf /*'d so that reddit gets nothing.We should start posting link to pirated content, magnets and such just to push reddit into permanently close the subreddit.
They took our ship, so we’re gonna sink it.
Set our ship aflame, then crash it to them? very crafty…
They have even been restoring deleted posts. Fuck reddit
Hmm… wouldn’t restoring deliberately-user-deleted content directly break a bunch of “right to be forgotten”-style laws that Reddit’s technically obliged to follow? (GDPR, some California laws, etc)?
In my country we have something called Datainspektionen, they hunt down companies that break GDPR, perhaps it’s time to report Reddit…
Well this came up in the post where people said their Reddit posts were being restored. Even when the user deleted their account mind you. Basically there is something in the reddit TOS that with everything you post you give up your rights to that and it becomes reddit’s content. But that was from a US legal perspective. I’m not sure how that would hold up against GDPR laws.
Edit, this is the post I’m referring to: https://lemmy.world/post/186613
GDPR is about personal data. Not copyrighted content and licensing that copyrighted content to others (in this case to Reddit as per Terms of Use).
It’s an interesting question and thought, but GDPR is primarily about personal data, not produced (and automatically copyrighted) content.
You produce copyrighted content/text, and as per Reddit terms send it to them with an irrevocable license to host, publish, and use that content.
As long as your account and posted content are not inherently person identifiable - linked to you as a person - the GDPR won’t give you additional rights/power.
It’s maybe a bit different for the account itself. I’m not sure what the law and law before court would say about that though.
Deleting a Reddit account does not remove your content, only your account, and the user association and labeling on the content. If right-to-be-forgotten would apply to the content, that’d have to be categorically-delectable as well.
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Through discussion elsewhere I learned:
Relevant is that you post your content linked to your online account. As such they are person-related data. You can always revoke permission / demand deletion of such data.
So the “revokation” wins over “unlinking content”.
I feel like the waters are a bit muddy, like if you had 1 acct, and posted a bunch, I’d imagine if you collected all your posts, there would be more than enough info to link the acct to your person. So where does that protection end? It just feels wrong if you couldn’t go and delete that stuff tbh.