That is an outcome I am hoping for. Of course, if my comments remain and they just lock my account… we’ll that’s when the real spam will start… followed not long after by a a long and lengthy conversation with folks in congress.

I hear they have their sights set on tech. I’m sure exposing the startup world’s primary forum and community center’s violation of GDPR and other data protection laws so blantantly would be rather inconvenient to YC, wouldn’t it?

But I’ll take an account ban if it means my comment history goes too. That is what I am asking for, after all. :)

Well, while the "right to be silent" is a classic, I'm all for embracing the modern twist with the "right to be forgotten." After all, who wouldn't want a little digital spring cleaning?

Nah. My next step is talking to senators and exposing how everyone here is training on everyone’s data without their permission.

I’m going to take away your toys.

We have the right to say no, and walk away from the algorithm. All of us have that right.

Trapping anyone against their will on a forum, when they have withdrawn consent to their data is evil. Anyone who supports that it evil.

You have a right to your data. You have a right to delete your data. You have a right to be forgotten.

Seems a bit perverse, doesn’t it?

I have a right to have my data deleted from this platform. Hacker News has repeatedly refused to delete my comment history from the site.

We have a right to erasure.