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Hard no. There is such a thing as the right to forget. At least in Europe. Stackoverflow likes to take that right away as it earns them more money, but that is
by wokkel 2y ago
Hard no. There is such a thing as the right to forget. At least in Europe. Stackoverflow likes to take that right away as it earns them more money, but that is never a good reason.
- elpool2 2y agoThe right to forget is about removing personal information from a site, or removing articles about you from search results. An answer to a Stackoverflow question isn't really personal info.
- lukan 2y ago"Hard no. There is such a thing as the right to forget." This only exists as a wish, but is not written in stone and some people actually disagree to that.
- whstl 2y agoActually it does exists, as part of GDPR and then added into the law of individual EU nations. Whether it applies to Stack Overflow posts is another discussion. IMO it doesn't due to Creative Commons licensing.
- colejohnson66 2y agoThe right to be forgotten does not mean you content has to be taken down, just that it no longer has to be associable with you.
- whstl 2y ago> The right to be forgotten does not mean you content has to be taken down As with almost anything GDPR: it really depends on the content, on the website, on the situation. There's no clear cut answer that applies to all cases. And copyright law also enters into the picture here, which is why I added the second paragraph.
- lxgr 2y agoAs I understand it, the right to be forgotten is a related but distinct concept to the GDPR.
- matsemann 2y agoRight to forget can be achieved by unlinking the content from you, though, and making sure it contains no personal identifiable information. Doesn't mean it needs to be deleted. Specifically since what you've posted on SO you've shared as CC BY-SA.
- lxgr 2y agoThat's not what that set of laws/norms covers at all. Try publishing a book with any European publisher and then "right to be forgottening" it out of existence.