Re:Reddit appears to be restoring edited/deleted comments
by jwestbury on Friday June 16, 2023 @08:17AM
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GDPR protects any data which can be tied to an identifiable person. So, if reddit posts are attached to my username, and my username can ultimately be tied back to me (see: my username is my name), then reddit cannot disallow deletion of these posts. There may be a workaround by no longer identifying them with a specific user, but this would have to be done on the back end, as simply changing who the displayed user is would still leave the data intact.
And that is the heart of one the problems with reddit or any other site that encourages people to post everything under the sun. You are giving up control of what then happens with your content.