I don't remember licensing my HN comments for 3rd party processing.
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ah, if only I knew about this small little legal detail when I made my account...
The law. And the license agreed when I made the account.
The law? I don't know, copyright law I guess?
Copyright gives you a bundle of rights over your expressive works, but when you give them to someone else for republication, as you are here, you’re licensing them. By licensing according to the terms of service, which is a binding contract, you are relinquishing those rights. As long as there is a term in the terms of service that allows the publisher to convey your expression to a third party, you don’t get any say into what happens next. You gave your consent by submitting your content, and there’s no backsies. (Subject to GDPR and other applicable laws, of course.)
And these days, no web service that accepts user generated content and has a competent lawyer is going to forget to have that sort of term in their ToS.
I don't know why they continue to stand by this massive breach of privacy.
Citizens of any country should have the right to sue to remove personal information from any website at any time, regardless of how it got there.
Right to be forgotten should he universal.
It's worse than that, it's an obvious GDPR violation. But it hasn't been tested in a (european) court yet. One day, it will be, and much rejoicing would be had then.
It's also a shitty provision that it's not made clear when signing up for HN, as it is a pretty uncommon one.
You write like a Bible.