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> Every TOS includes a stanza like this one from Google You don't even have to go that far. Check the "Legal" link in the footer of this very page: https://www
by Lammy 4y ago
> Every TOS includes a stanza like this one from Google
You don't even have to go that far. Check the "Legal" link in the footer of this very page: https://www.ycombinator.com/legal/ https://www.ycombinator.com/legal/
“Welcome to the Y Combinator website (including all websites to which this Privacy Policy is posted, the “Site”), which is operated by Y Combinator Management, LLC and its affiliates (collectively, “Y Combinator,” “we”, “us” and/or “our”).”
“With respect to the content or other materials you upload through the Site or share with other users or recipients (collectively, “User Content”), you represent and warrant that you own all right, title and interest in and to such User Content, including, without limitation, all copyrights and rights of publicity contained therein. By uploading any User Content you hereby grant and will grant Y Combinator and its affiliated companies a nonexclusive, worldwide, royalty free, fully paid up, transferable, sublicensable, perpetual, irrevocable license to copy, display, upload, perform, distribute, store, modify and otherwise use your User Content for any Y Combinator-related purpose in any form, medium or technology now known or later developed.”
- jeffbee 4y agoIt is a source of amusement that this site is a gathering place for rabid privacy absolutists, but it also not possible to delete anything here, as far as I can tell.
- verdverm 4y agoYou can get your account deleted, but they have a policy of not deleting content because it contributed to a conversation, especially when there are replies
- doublerabbit 4y agoAll excuses not too. I'm sure theres a "but what if the deleted comment was a solution to an problem" remark.
- verdverm 4y ago> Can I delete my account? > We try not to delete entire account histories because that would gut the threads the account had participated in. However, we care about protecting individual users and take care of privacy requests every day, so if we can help, please email hn@ycombinator.com. We don't want anyone to get in trouble from anything they posted to HN. [More here]. See the FAQ & link The general issue is this is a public forum that is scrapped by many parties, so the data is replicated to many unknown places.
- jeffbee 4y agoYou might say that HN needs to distribute user posts ... perpetually ... and that .. revoking ... the license to a post would be problematic?
- saurik 4y agoI am rabid about privacy... but I am also involved in government and am rabid about transparency and completeness: these are not incompatible thoughts. I both believe everyone should have access to decentralized end-to-end encrypted communication technology and also believe that public meetings should be permanently archived. If you want to send me content in private, you should get to do so... but, the ability to retroactively delete content you sent either to me or more so purposefully sent to the world has absolutely nothing to do with "privacy".
- senko 4y agoIt's a sad state of affairs (in the copyright system) where this is required in order to be able to display text on a screen. This is a website version of "caution - hot" on coffee cups.
- 3np 4y agoIt's not required. Or show us a warning counterexample of someone who failed and faced the consequences.
- einherjae 4y agoI find that the crowd here isn’t all that privacy absolutist (ala EFF). The views I see on stuff like telemetry or ad tracking tend to lean towards that either being inevitable, or just the cost of doing business. Sure you have some of the privacy absolutists too, but the crowd seems more varied, with perhaps a slight skew the other way, at least to the Slashdot of yore.
- k_roy 4y agoPeople like to quote this in reference to frivolous things. But the coffee lawsuit wasn't frivolous
- Freedom2 4y agoI put a lot more trust in Y Combinator and dang than other companies, however. They don't even care about curious discussion!