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Highlighting the recent report of users and admins being unable to delete images, and how Trust & Safety tooling is currently lacking.

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[–] [email protected] 2 points 8 months ago (1 children)

I was talking hypothetically. Are they allowed to do that? If not, then they cannot be noncompliant with GDPR, simple as.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 8 months ago (1 children)

Are they allowed to do that?

Actually yes. The people that run afoul of the GDPR are the people who run the instance servers. The code writers are not the ones legally responsible.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 8 months ago (1 children)

Yeah, theu are just as legally responsible as admins of instances.

[–] [email protected] 0 points 8 months ago (1 children)

That's going to vary heavily based on regional laws. You cannot make such a blanket statement like that.

[–] [email protected] 0 points 8 months ago (1 children)
[–] [email protected] 1 points 8 months ago

Ok, sure. You can. You can also just be completely wrong at the same time.