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  • Aurix@lemmynsfw.comEnglish
    19·
    1 year ago

    This is downright terrifying. A major escalation of the blackout and deleting your content - with the help of european law - is a nice response to that, if they do not step back. This is perhaps the most extreme measure to be taken, short of destroying the data center itself. An emptied reddit history is a massive loss of knowledge and perhaps questionably damaging for the outside world.

    • manitcor@lemmy.intai.techOPEnglish
      12·
      1 year ago

      I am on the never going back path at this point, Im not even sure Ill be reopening the sub with links point back here, that still gives them value.

    • hddsx@lemmy.worldEnglish
      0·
      1 year ago

      What’s stopping Reddit from checking your IP and seeing that you’re not from the EU and restoring your data from a backup

      • starrox@sh.itjust.worksEnglish
        2·
        1 year ago

        It would leave them open to potentially devastating legal consequences if an affected EU citizen can prove in court that reddit makes money of his content, which he deleted. Also the “right to be forgotten” as in the GDPR formulated would be violated.

        IF reddit really goes that way, they’d have to anonymize at least the usernames. Which would make it extremely hard to prove that something is “your content” and not someone elses.

        • hddsx@lemmy.worldEnglish
          2·
          1 year ago

          So it’s not enough to prove that the IP used is not from the EU and that therefore it’s (supposedly) not under EU jurisdiction?

          It covers EU citizens traveling abroad?

          If so, dang that’s a good law