I do not live in California or the EU. What can I do?
Why would they need your permission? They own the content you posted to their website.
I’d say just ignore it and move on. It’s over. Focus on what what matters.
I don’t think that would hold up in court.
From what i remember, the Reddit TOS says that your content is your content.
And rightfully so, or else they’d be responsible for everything that everyone posts as if they posted it themselves.
You only give them the license to publish your posts, but if a user edits or deletes their content, i don’t think they’d have a legal right to undelete and post and repiblishing it without you agreeing to it (again).
Are you taking them to court?
If they want to adhere to EU laws I think they might have to, might still fuck over people from other places though.
The content is fine, but anything associated with them that can be deemed as identifiable needs to go if OP requests the right to be forgotten. Most services will just “censor” the username by replacing it with “deleted” or something. They don’t have to get rid of everything else.
What if a comment itself includes some kind of personal data such as a link that explicitly ties the comment to a person?
Don’t post shit that can be linked to you easily.
People have some weird expectation from a shiti online business. Take of your shit, you can’t rely on the counterparties to protect you.
Originally I didn’t mind tying the comment to my identity, but once I decide to delete my account, I want all such ties gone. Case in point: links to open-source projects with my name in them.
“You shouldn’t have posted it in the first place” is just victim blaming.
Ehh you ain’t wrong but there is not recourse once you are in victim position online. We all made this mistake. Now it is play area for feds, bots and foreign agents. So just got to take care of your privacy and security on the front end.
Yup - I pretty much said this was one of the things that could’ve happened to people who were adamant about deleting their comments.
To OP: thinking since there’s no GDPR compliance for the US, I wouldn’t be surprised Reddit was able to go “uhhhh” and do this anyways. If you were a citizen in the EU, then something could probably be done, but otherwise I wouldn’t be super optimisitic.
Nothing. Too many users deleted their posts and reddit decided to find a way to undo that. Your comments are worth too much to the AI bot farmers to ignore.
That doesn’t really make sense. They don’t need to visually restore the comments to sell them to AI bot farmers.
They aren’t going to be able to sell them to AI farms. That ship has sailed. All the valuable content was scraped before there was a cost imposed. Spez is high on his own farts if he thinks anyone is gonna pay their stupid API fees for that.
What are you talking about? Eleventy billion dollars per API call is a completely reasonable price! How else is Spez supposed to become a billionaire??? Those greedy API users are stealing moniez from poor, poor, spez.
it’s just cached content from the many servers, they got overwhelmed by the too many delete requests, run again the powerdeletesuite. Also, if while you used powerdeletesuite a subreddit was private, it wouldn’t be able to detect and delete that post or comment
I think there is a script out there that replaces all your comments with random gibberish sentences. Just cron it to run every week until all the rollbacks are gone.
Login, run a tool to mass edit them, and then run a tool to delete them. Reddit used to only save the previous state and if it is still like that it will render them useless.
What can I do?
Move on with your life already, for one.
None of that matters.Unless you delete your account, deleted and removed comments are still visible on your profile. This has been the case since I joined Reddit.
Just start going through your old top comments and replace it with a bunch of racist or very obsene shit. Its already a top comment and its old so likely nobody will see
Doesn’t prevent them from rolling the comments back to the pre vandalized state and only really serves to attack innocent unrelated third parties with whatever psychic damage you decided to put out into the world.
If they still have the database the way they originally designed it, they only keep the prior version. That’s why people kept saying to over-write your old comment and then delete it.
I plan to run the delete many times over the next year or something like that
