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IANAL but having dealt with GDPR lawyers in a past career, GDPR allows you to anonymize user data as in, if there is no link between the user and the data, that satisfies a right to erasure request. That is not what is happening here but it is not as if reddit has no way to keep deleted comments and still be GDPR compliant.

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> if there is no link between the user and the data, that satisfies a right to erasure request. That is not what is happening here

Clearly not, as the data and links to user profile has been restored.

> but it is not as if reddit has no way to keep deleted comments and still be GDPR compliant.

They would have to prove that the data is irreversibly anonymized - which is tricky. Say they keep threads by supplanting an opaque (guuid) user id - and a single message in a single thread mentions a users full name, phone number or email in a reply? Now all of that users messages are associated with a person....

Yes, as I said, that is not what is happening in this instance.

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