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Comment by kitanata | Hacker News Reader

I’m not. I just don’t want to be on the internet anymore and I have a right to be forgotten.

Not according to the US, where the site is hosted, you don't.

Rights go beyond laws my friend. You see for example, I have the right to endlessly create accounts and flood this site with LLM spam, if I wanted to. Nothing illegal about training a model to post comments online is there?

You see… when it comes to rights and impinging on the rights of others… it becomes rather easy to make enemies of people you really don’t want to be enemies with.

Hacker News can either delete my comments (not just anonymize the username) and then delete my account or I have the right to become a very very annoying problem for them.

Rights are inalienable like that.

Welcome to the club. Just send an email to dang@yc and he can change your username. Deleting entire accounts and comments would severely break the HN database, so don’t lose any sleep over it.

I do not want to change my username. I want to delete MY comments and MY account.

I don’t care if this “breaks your database” or not. It wasn’t a problem for LinkedIn to delete my account and data. It wasn’t a problem for Twitter. It wasn’t a problem for Facebook.

Why is it a problem for you?

Delete my comments, then delete my account. All of it. Not just a rename.

I was here. I contributed for a bit. Now I want to leave, and I don’t want any part of me to stay.