Reddit breaks the law to quell protests - spez has gone too far
Reddit breaks the law to quell protests - spez has gone too far
We reach a new low every day...
Calling him evil is giving him too much credit. I think incompetence and gross negligence better cover it.
Totally outrageous. Never in a mlllion years would I have thought this.
Also, totally on par for the course for the current ceo.
Actually, this video is about the other video. So the 3rd point - restoring comments after getting the legal request to delete, may not be totally accurate. https://kbin.social/m/RedditMigration/t/101759/Reddit-violates-CCPA#entry-comment-413421
But the main gist - that reddit is violating CCPA - is still correct.
this is why everyone needs to edit all their comments instead of deleting them. i edited all the comments on my 14 year old account using a script. i got banned from like 5 subs in the process - but a few days later still not rolled back
remember the API is liable to change in the next few days.. if someone wants to do this they need to do it now while they still can
I used a script to edit mine, and most of them have been reverted multiple times in the last week. Some of them retain my edits, so I keep running the script.
I used to delete my comments regularly, but fell out of the habit a few years ago. I’m currently going through my history manually to overwrite and delete everything - fortunately I wasn’t a prolific commenter, and it’s kind of nice to see my history.
I don’t suppose there’s any way to do that if you deleted your account after deleting comments?
It's interesting how much worse this link is faring on the subreddit.
Well, there are way less downvote bots here :p
What's the TL;DW version?
Basically what we already know. Reddit is restoring comments that have been deleted by users possibly in violation of data privacy laws.
Louis goes a little farther by sharing the story of one particular user who tried multiple ways to delete their content including manually deleting every single comment one by one. Then to answer Reddit's response that user data is "anonomized" by disassociating it with the user account when the user deletes their account, the user points out that at least one of their posts has their full name in it, and by restoring that post against the user's wishes, they've violated California's data privacy laws.
He then goes into his typical cynical rant which I personally find entertaining but I know he rubs a lot of people the wrong way.
He also mentioned that Spez edited user content that was critical of him, without any indication to others that he was editing it.
MUSTERFESTSTELLUNGSKLAGE
I speak German (it's basically my native language) and I have no idea what that word is meant to mean.
I looked it up and this came up.
I only took introductory German so I have no idea what this is but I think it's a law or something.
Fluggaenkoecchicebolsen?
Per Reddit's own rules, WE own the content we post there, they just have a non-exclusive license to use it.
I'd say edit every comment/post to include that you revoke the license you gave reddit. Might mean something, might not, who knows.