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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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[–] CeeBee@lemmy.world 2 points 6 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.

[–] Maalus@lemmy.world 1 points 6 months ago (1 children)

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

[–] CeeBee@lemmy.world 0 points 6 months ago (1 children)

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

[–] Maalus@lemmy.world 0 points 6 months ago (1 children)
[–] CeeBee@lemmy.world 1 points 6 months ago

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