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Megathread for Reddit Blackouts and News - Rest of the Week(?) (beehaw.org)

submitted 1 year ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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hey everyone. if you want to post links or discuss the Reddit blackout, its aftermath, and what's happening going forward, please localize it to this thread in order to keep things tidy! thanks! we'll see if we need to cycle the thread again before the end of this week, but i don't know that we'll need to

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[–] [email protected] 13 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (3 children)

If this is true, then it's not good news

Some hackernews folk are saying their changes were reversed https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=36354850-

[–] [email protected] 10 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Time to write a gpdr Letter to get deleted :D

https://feddit.de/comment/313618

[–] [email protected] 5 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (2 children)

Shame its in German and I can't understand it. But do you think that letter will be effective? What if they start restoring my posts/comments? How do I escalate then?

Edit: With a little translation, my email is already on its way :)

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 year ago (1 children)

There is a 4 million EURO or billion or otherwise huge fine for noncompliance with gpdr anywhere in the EU. And it can be enforced.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago

It also applies to all countries in the European Economic Area (the EEA). The EEA is an area larger than the EU and includes Iceland, Norway, and Liechtenstein.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Not a lawyer here, but from my naive understanding: HELL YEAH! I mean, it only works from Europe, but every company has to nominate a contract for GDPR inquiries. Once they received that inquiry, there is a mandated deadline. If they fail to comply, the data protection authority can fine a portion of their revenues (not profits). Please take my info with a grain of salt as I haven't verified them, but that is how I understand our system.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (1 children)

List of hackernews folk are saying their changes were reversed https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=36354850-

I can confirm that at least my account that I nuked 6 months ago had the comments restored.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago

I run a new batch process purging my comments every day, and the next day some random subset is restored. Oh well. my computer can do this all day.