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> I think gutting the value of a forum so that people can remove all their content at will on a whim can readily go bad places. Thankfully, there's a really ea
by throwaway4719 8y ago
> I think gutting the value of a forum so that people can remove all their content at will on a whim can readily go bad places.
Thankfully, there's a really easy solution that HN today will not consider/is not taking seriously enough: Just change the goddamn displayed username for each comment to "<deleted>" or whatever.
1) this kind of (seemingly; it's all a black box in reality though) naval-gazing-based decision making is exactly why the GDPR makes sense. We can't run our lives on the whims of a few random people.
2) Does YCombinator tell us all of this stuff when we sign up to HN? No. We have to find it out by ourselves. When we e-mail them to ask them to delete our contributions, since there's no delete button, they just say "sorry, we can't do that".
This kind of stuff is what the GDPR is good for.
- matte_black 8y agoGDPR is one of the reasons I’m hoping for the collapse of the EU. If a US company has no physical presence in Europe I see no reason why they should comply with their bullshit. And under a Trump administration... good luck.
- throwaway4719 8y agoThat's the beauty of it all. Do you really think YCombinator has no EU exposure? It's a multi-billion dollar company.
- jakeogh 8y agoI bet Poland and Hungry are next to leave. It's a sad, predictable situation, take away the people's ability to check their own government, it's almost a law of physics that next to go is free speech (now), and then... history repeats. The BREXIT vote shows they know, but it's to be seen if the British can turn this one around.
- DoreenMichele 8y agoRedacted so I can pointlessly make it a blog post without Google penalizing my blog like I am plagiarizing or something.
- severine 8y agoPlease make this a blog post, you raise very interesting points.
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- DoreenMichele 8y agohttp://gistofthegemini.blogspot.com/2018/03/the-gdpr-potentially-instutionalized.html http://gistofthegemini.blogspot.com/2018/03/the-gdpr-potenti... There's your requested blog post. It's been slightly edited from the original (plus a few paragraphs tacked on to the end of it), so you can enjoy reading it a second time to look for the small differences between the blog post and what you remember of the comment. (I have fixed multiple typos in the past few minutes. If you refresh, it might stop being gibberish.)
- throwaway4719 8y ago> Long rant on why the GDPR is bad > I am not a lawyer. I have not read the GDPR. You sound like you would enjoy hanging out with Adam Curry & John C. Dvorak. :)
- DoreenMichele 8y agoHello HN poster with multiple handles and negative karma who keeps complaining about HNs unwillingness to comply with the GDPR, creating new accounts and cross referencing them yourself by self identifying that you are also these multiple other accounts. FYI, the piece is not a rant. Also FYI, I am talking about people like you. Your problem cannot be solved by the mods deleting your multiple cross referenced accounts that you complain you want deleted while continuing to make new handles and then voluntarily outing yourself each and every time. It just would create headaches for the mods while feeding your delusion that your behavior is not the issue and does not need to change.