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Reddit may be bringing back deleted comments (lemmy.world)
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[–] OurTragicUniverse@kbin.social 2 points 1 year ago

Fuck. I really don't like this.

So many trauma and support subreddits get deeply personal and identifying posts and comments about horrific shit people (me included) lived through and were trying to cope with, which got deleted several hours after posting for privacy reasons.

If this content gets revived by reddit, it puts a lot of vulnerable people in danger as it this type of 'content' is often harvested by users of other platforms who share these stories with huge audiences.

[–] minode@szmer.info 2 points 1 year ago (2 children)

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.

[–] mrmanager 1 points 1 year ago

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.

[–] S4nvers@kbin.social 0 points 1 year ago (1 children)

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

[–] onceuponaban@kbin.social 1 points 1 year ago

So what you're saying is, mass-edit all your comments to contain your full name right before requesting deletion.

[–] Ffkhrocks@lemmy.world 1 points 1 year ago

So section 230 protects social media platforms regarding content users post.

If they reinstate a user deleted post who owns it?

Hoping this blows up in their faces as it's a really shitty course of action to take.

[–] OsrsNeedsF2P@lemmy.ml 1 points 1 year ago (1 children)

What's more likely is there was a database syncing issue

[–] mrmanager 1 points 1 year ago

More likely?

No what's more likely is that they want to show a lot of posts and comments in their statistics before they go public. They are trying to make the protests look like it's nothing.

[–] BrooklynMan@lemmy.ml 1 points 1 year ago (1 children)

I sanitized all of my comments before I deleted them. They’re welcome to bring them back. it’s all just a protest message anyway. But for those who didn’t, this is really shitty.

[–] solidgrue@lemmy.world 1 points 1 year ago

Unedited messages were restored to my profile. You might want to check yours.