Here it comes - Reddit admins taking over subs

manitcor@lemmy.intai.tech to Lemmy.World Announcements@lemmy.world – 1742 points –

lemmy.world IS NOT a general discussion area. find another community.

my bad....

-manitcor

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This is downright terrifying. A major escalation of the blackout and deleting your content - with the help of european law - is a nice response to that, if they do not step back. This is perhaps the most extreme measure to be taken, short of destroying the data center itself. An emptied reddit history is a massive loss of knowledge and perhaps questionably damaging for the outside world.

I am on the never going back path at this point, Im not even sure Ill be reopening the sub with links point back here, that still gives them value.

just backup your data and repost into lemmy

What’s stopping Reddit from checking your IP and seeing that you’re not from the EU and restoring your data from a backup

IANAL, but how the GDPR is formulated. Reddit would need to prove that you are not an EU citizen, iirc.

So it’s not enough to prove that the IP used is not from the EU and that therefore it’s (supposedly) not under EU jurisdiction?

It covers EU citizens traveling abroad?

If so, dang that’s a good law

According to WP: The GDPR also applies to data controllers and processors outside of the European Economic Area (EEA) if they are engaged in the "offering of goods or services" (regardless of whether a payment is required) to data subjects within the EEA, or are monitoring the behaviour of data subjects within the EEA (Article 3(2)). The regulation applies regardless of where the processing takes place.

Source: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/General_Data_Protection_Regulation#Applicability_outside_of_the_European_Union

It would leave them open to potentially devastating legal consequences if an affected EU citizen can prove in court that reddit makes money of his content, which he deleted. Also the "right to be forgotten" as in the GDPR formulated would be violated.

IF reddit really goes that way, they'd have to anonymize at least the usernames. Which would make it extremely hard to prove that something is "your content" and not someone elses.