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As a European for decades in the US, it is the first time in my life that I feel fear for expressing my opinions. Ps does HN offer the capability of completely

As a European for decades in the US, it is the first time in my life that I feel fear for expressing my opinions. Ps does HN offer the capability of completely deleting the account and all of the comments ?

_yrnr 2y ago
> Ps does HN offer the capability of completely deleting the account and all of the comments ? They claim to allow deleting the account (just the name, they keep the comments up), but in practice they ignore requests. Source: personal experience.
- zmgsabst 2y ago
  Is that even legal for a CA based company?
  - johnnyanmac 2y ago
    Not as of 2018 with the CCPA: https://oag.ca.gov/privacy/ccpa#sectiond https://oag.ca.gov/privacy/ccpa#sectiond they have 45 days to respond and another 45 days to delete the info.
bediger4000 2y ago
That's a feature many have begged for, for years.
k12sosse 2y ago
Too late, they're already archived and you're better off buying that plane ticket North.
vasco 2y ago
You can demand it under gdpr right to be forgotten and see where that gets you. Even being a US site they have to be compliant for EU users.
- qiqitori 2y ago
  Comments are not personal data. You can't publish a book and then GDPR your publisher to stop publishing it.
  - johnnyanmac 2y ago
    They are personal data, and it's not a commercialized one (the main point of GDPR). I see no reason you cannot delete your own public comments, at least on the primary site.
- tasuki 2y ago
  > Even being a US site they have to be compliant for EU users. Why? What happens if not? EU-wide DNS ban? I haven't seen that yet...
Raed667 2y ago
HN is archived by tens of 3rd party DBs (for better or worse) so requesting a full deletion is a step but it won’t scrub everything
- silverliver 2y ago
  Doing something is better than nothing.
comrade1234 2y ago
I mule my account every few years. Just post something super-offensive to get banned and then create a new account.
- yubblegum 2y ago
  We have no idea about YCombinator's retention of IP addresses and logs.

_yrnr 2y ago

> Ps does HN offer the capability of completely deleting the account and all of the comments ? They claim to allow deleting the account (just the name, they keep the comments up), but in practice they ignore requests. Source: personal experience.

zmgsabst 2y ago
Is that even legal for a CA based company?
- johnnyanmac 2y ago
  Not as of 2018 with the CCPA: https://oag.ca.gov/privacy/ccpa#sectiond https://oag.ca.gov/privacy/ccpa#sectiond they have 45 days to respond and another 45 days to delete the info.

bediger4000 2y ago

That's a feature many have begged for, for years.

k12sosse 2y ago

Too late, they're already archived and you're better off buying that plane ticket North.

vasco 2y ago

You can demand it under gdpr right to be forgotten and see where that gets you. Even being a US site they have to be compliant for EU users.

qiqitori 2y ago
Comments are not personal data. You can't publish a book and then GDPR your publisher to stop publishing it.
- johnnyanmac 2y ago
  They are personal data, and it's not a commercialized one (the main point of GDPR). I see no reason you cannot delete your own public comments, at least on the primary site.
tasuki 2y ago
> Even being a US site they have to be compliant for EU users. Why? What happens if not? EU-wide DNS ban? I haven't seen that yet...

Raed667 2y ago

HN is archived by tens of 3rd party DBs (for better or worse) so requesting a full deletion is a step but it won’t scrub everything

silverliver 2y ago
Doing something is better than nothing.

comrade1234 2y ago

I mule my account every few years. Just post something super-offensive to get banned and then create a new account.

yubblegum 2y ago
We have no idea about YCombinator's retention of IP addresses and logs.