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Comment by TobyTheDog123 | Hacker News Reader

100% agree, perhaps instead of only tracking usernames it can also track external Github URLs (to portfolios, linkedin, twitter, and the like), email addresses, etc etc, just to make it a little harder to evade the sanction while also taking credit for their work off of Github.

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Maybe we could pin a symbol on their avatars, to make them easy to identify

But what? Something like an "H" for "hacker" would be considered a positive by far too many people who wouldn't realize at first that it's using the other, wrong, definition.

Until they invoke their right to erasure

Only silly people think that right exists.

Sure retcons are inherently a silly idea, but if "silly people" includes courts and law enforcement is it really that silly?

"Sure retcons are inherently a silly idea, but if "silly people" includes courts and law enforcement is it really that silly?"

The key understanding is that silly people do not, here, include courts and law enforcement.

The thing the poster is trying to reference is the GDPR, and the GDPR does not offer this right with regard to other individuals.

What makes this silly is people pretending rights exist that actually do not.

If someone is publicly compiling a database of other individuals, and hosts this on e.g. github, you can absolutely get it taken down.

Well, go ahead, then. They've been up for literal decades.

Link to any that have my personal data listed on them?

There is no right to erasure from other individuals. That's for businesses you worked with.

The GDPR does not have the ability to mandate my personal behavior, and even if it thought it did, many of us turn out not to live in Europe.

What are they going to do, prevent my text file from doing business in France?

Where are those individuals going to host these lists? Probably using a business, such as github or some other hosting company. Just target them.

Why would I target them, when I agree with them?

Besides, you're saying "just target them," but you don't actually have the ability. Nothing you can do will get those lists taken down, even if you're on them.

> Nothing you can do will get those lists taken down, even if you're on them.

Wrong.

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