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Re:StackOverflow is banning accounts that delete answers in ... by cornholio on Wednesday May 08, 2024 @08:31AM (#40297292)
Content you have voluntarily published under the terms of a platform, which presumably grants StakOverflow all commercial rights, won't fall under GDPR. You can request your personal information to be deleted, not the content you produced under contract and which you no longer own.
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Re:StackOverflow is banning accounts that delete answers in ... by realusername on Wednesday May 08, 2024 @08:40AM (#40297404)
There are legislations where you always retain the moral rights to anything you produce (those cannot be waived) and the authors here could argue that this partnership is negatively affecting their moral rights.

I don't think it's been tried before but that sounds like a possible legal path to taking down the content

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Re:StackOverflow is banning accounts that delete answers in ... by robjan on Wednesday May 08, 2024 @12:32PM (#40300014)
If you open source your work you can't just pull the content then sue someone using the content you gave them a license to use due to moral rights.
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Re:StackOverflow is banning accounts that delete answers in ... by realusername on Wednesday May 08, 2024 @12:47PM (#40300199)
No, in those legislations you absolutely can, the moral rights supersede the license (not that I'm necessarily happy with that)

In the case of open source software, it could be some use which reflects badly on yourself.

Here in this scenario, the angle could be that using it for training in AI could affect the integrity of the content produced

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Re:StackOverflow is banning accounts that delete answers in ... by dailykoder on Wednesday May 08, 2024 @08:34AM (#40297318)
Ye, this sounds reasonable. Sad.
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