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Warning: You cannot delete posts or comments on Lemmy. It stays up forever, and is in direct violation of GDPR and other national privacy laws. (self.fediverse)

submitted 10 months ago by purple_mimosa to c/[email protected]

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Title says it. Apparently lemmy devs are not concerned with such worldly matters as privacy, or respecting international privacy laws.

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[–] [email protected] 3 points 10 months ago (1 children)

The EU doesn't have global jurisdiction.

[–] [email protected] -1 points 10 months ago (1 children)

No, it has jurisdiction in the EU. And Lemmy is a part of the EU jurisdiction.

Unless the devs want to block everyone in the EU from accessing the site.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 10 months ago

Lemmy instances are hosted all over the world, by people in a wide variety of jurisdictions. A particular instance of Lemmy might be risking trouble, but Lemmy as a whole (and the Fediverse as a whole) is not.

If I were to write up a simple forum server and post the code, and it happens to lack the ability to delete comments, I've done nothing wrong. Someone running that software in the EU might run into some trouble, but I'm not on the hook for that.