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Ask HN: Any way to deactivate your Hacker News account?
The recent threads regarding KF have made me realize this site is not one I'd like to associate with.
- throw03172019 4y agoWhat is KF?
- __warlord__ 4y ago
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- AnimalMuppet 4y agoKiwi Farms, I suspect.
- aaaaaaaaata 4y agoIs that something people should or shouldn't be Bing-ing?
- AnimalMuppet 4y agoIt's not NSFW (as far as I know). It's far worse. It seems to be a web forum that's into harassing minorities, sometimes to the point of suicide. Worse, it may be harassment with the intent of causing suicide. It's appalling.
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- ShamelessC 4y agoHow is it relevant to hacker news?
- deepdriver 4y agoIt's been in the news, and subject to much HN commentary: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=32661638 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=32661638 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=32706673 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=32706673 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=32711475 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=32711475
- ShamelessC 4y agoOh, I see... Well, there is a sort of alarmingly high number of people defending what appears be a cesspool of hate and bigotry.
- AnimalMuppet 4y agoNot exactly (at least I hope not). I think they're defending the rights of cesspools to still have freedom of speech. (Except it's not government restrictions, so it's not exactly First-Amendment-style free speech.) (And, in defending KF's right to be on the internet, they're defending other businesses being required to carry them, which is... free speech for KF but not for people like Cloudflare.)
- krapp 4y agoI take it you've missed out on Hacker News' meltdown du jour: Blocking Kiwifarms[0] (approaching 2k comments) Kiwifarms Response to Cloudflare[1] (approaching 500 comments) Kiwifarms Is Down Across All Domains[2] Kiwi Farms: Anti-trans stalkers chasing Keffals around the world[3] Cloudflare Pressured to drop Kiwifarms after latest doxxing effort[4] BSNES author Byuu bullied to suicide by Kiwifarms[5] [0] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=32706673 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=32706673 [1] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=32722950 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=32722950 [2] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=32722950 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=32722950 [3] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=32706292 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=32706292 [4] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=32557826 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=32557826 [5] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=27657610 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=27657610
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- cratermoon 4y agoWe try not to delete entire account histories because that would gut the threads the account had participated in. However, we care about protecting individual users and take care of privacy requests every day, so if we can help, please email hn@ycombinator.com. We don't want anyone to get in trouble from anything they posted to HN. https://news.ycombinator.com/newsfaq.html https://news.ycombinator.com/newsfaq.html
- troymc 4y agoIf an HN user is a citizen of an EU country, then it's my understanding that the GDPR requires you to comply with their request for account deletion.
- woojoo666 4y agoThis makes me wonder, does archive.org comply with GDPR?
- Crosseye_Jack 4y agoTaken form the UKs ICO https://ico.org.uk/for-organisations/guide-to-data-protection/guide-to-the-general-data-protection-regulation-gdpr/individual-rights/right-to-erasure https://ico.org.uk/for-organisations/guide-to-data-protectio... > When does the right to erasure not apply? > The right to erasure does not apply if processing is necessary for one of the following reasons: > … > for archiving purposes in the public interest, scientific research, historical research or statistical purposes where erasure is likely to render impossible or seriously impair the achievement of that processing So Internet Archive is prob covered under archiving in the public interest. But don’t IA remove pages upon request?
- arunnanda 4y agoDo they delete old records of a website if the site owner simply asks for it, or do they need any substantial reasons to do so?
- texaslonghorn5 4y agoHonestly this post is probably going to be counterproductive to your goal. Better strategy is probably to email the admin team hn@ycombinator.com
- joshxyz 4y agoNo, you're forever stuck in here with us in dang's 7th circle of hell Edit: just making yall laugh folks, i dont know about that kf yet
- bobsmooth 4y agoWhy?
- detritus 4y agoAs always with this kind of post: attention.
- onphonenow 4y agoWhat does KF have to do with HN?
- melonrusk 4y agoNothing, this is just how the New Faith attacks - you will be asked to approve of their previous attacks, and any failure to do so will be used to make you "those evil guys who supported the evil guys we destroyed before". Then when HN is destroyed, someone will complain about that, and so the cycle continues.
- bawolff 4y agoI have never understood why people always want to delete accounts instead of just stopping visiting sites they dont like anymore and moving on with life.
- mmsnberbar66 4y agoopsec, data privacy, paranoia, etc
- srvmshr 4y agoCould HN admins help unvote stray likes (which happened accidentally) to stories and comments.
- Bakary 4y agoPerhaps I am misunderstanding your question, but there is an unvote button for this purpose. It does disappear after a while.
- feet 4y agoOP, I understand your sentiment and am inclined to agree. Support of such a site is appalling. But I would also urge you to consider that people who feel like us leaving may make the HN community worse, as the percentage of people who support things like KF will be in greater percentage. Perhaps using pseudo anonymous accounts and naming may help, that's what I do as I try to keep my online and real life partitioned