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I don't imagine this will go over very well with most people.

However, headlines like this are a good reminder to practice good social media hygiene; I've been careful about what I post and have a habit of deleting old Facebook posts from my teenage days.

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That reminds me I’d like to erase my HN comments over a few years old.. oh wait.

(Seriously, can we please make it easier to remove comments/accounts from non-archive sites? There’s not a single person on earth that can survive a Willie Horton style campaign where everything you say is examined without context - it’s an abdication of responsibility on those running a community)

I wonder how compliant HN is with Article 17 of the GDPR[1]. It's the "right to erasure".

[1] https://gdpr-info.eu/art-17-gdpr/

Personal data is not the same as comments posted on a public forum, but its not to deter the most determined actors - its more to indicate that I no longer want to have any association with the comments.

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