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Re:Ask HN: How can I delete my HN account? by nevergetenglish on Thursday January 29, 2015 @06:53PM (#8969668)
In Europe we have the right to be forgotten (wikipedia for a reference).
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Re:Ask HN: How can I delete my HN account? by krapp on Thursday January 29, 2015 @07:24PM (#8969788)
Hacker News is an American site run by an American company, probably hosted on an American server.

It might be nice, as a courtesy, for them to add this for their considerable European userbase, but the web is global, and not everyone has to care about what Europeans consider to be their rights.

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