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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?