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If I were dang, I would disable your account so you can no longer log in and post. But the moment you’ve made an intentional public post on a public forum hosted in a foreign country, from my perspective you have lost any and all moral right to demand anything whatsoever in regards to your previous posts, no matter the absurd overreaching of your domestic regulators.

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This seems so extreme.

I think the part that bothers me most is that you seem to have firmly decided the EU regulators aren't real human beings trying to solve a legitimate problem in a way you disagree with. That'd be too respectful and humanizing. They're pure evil?

Something tells me there is an untold story behind...

Nah. Had the same thing happen to me. I once asked dang to delete my account, and he stated much the same to me. In his defence, he was polite, and offered to rename my account to a random name, dissociating me from it. He also

On the other hand, I agree with GP. It's surprising that you cannot delete an account. That HN stay "readable" without the [deleted] is clearly secondary to the possibility of having an account be deleteable. Imagine if I were part of an at-risk group.

The law is the law. Your perspective is irrelevant.

Yes, I’m pointing out that you are acting in bad faith and your continued presence on this site shouldn’t be tolerated given your repeated outbursts against the admins. Your perspective on my viewpoint is irrelevant.

Asking for the law to be followed is an "outburst"? Okay buddy. You americans are really far gone.

Is HN hosted in the EU? If not, then the law is in fact not the law.

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