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Reddit may be bringing back deleted comments
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this post was submitted on 16 Jun 2023
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Someone mentioned invoking GDPR's right to be forgotten. Although comments are not strictly personal information, it could still work. I think I'll try it soon.
I don't think they can just restore all comments and bypass the GDPR, that would be insane. It's a very serious law in Europe.
I think you should definitely try, but I don't think it'll work. According to this stackexchange question they could argue that deleting your comments would break the cohesiveness of the discussion and make the available information incomplete.
Art.17, 3a states that the right to be forgotten is not applicable if processing of the data is required to exercise freedom of information. So I don't think posts or comments are affected by the GDPR as long as they don't contain any information that would identify a user
So what you're saying is, mass-edit all your comments to contain your full name right before requesting deletion.