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[MEGATHREAD] Everything to know before taking legal actions against Reddit in c/RedditMigration@kbin.social
[–] valveman@lemmy.fmhy.ml 0 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago) (1 children)

Well, their ToS says these (ToS + Privacy Policy) are a legally-binding agreement. So technically, you could sue them for not deleting your posts

[MEGATHREAD] Everything to know before taking legal actions against Reddit in c/RedditMigration@kbin.social
[–] valveman@lemmy.fmhy.ml 1 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago)

I'm not from EU, nor California, nor Canada. So if anyone wants to contribute with further information about GDPR/CCPA/Other data protection laws, it'll be greatly appreciated.

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[MEGATHREAD] Everything to know before taking legal actions against Reddit (lemmy.fmhy.ml)
 

I've seen a post here about Reddit restoring user content without permission and discussing whether this is legal or not, and decided to create this post to help others find resources regarding this before taking any legal action.

Disclaimer: I am not a lawyer and nothing posted here (at least by me) should be considered legal advice under any circumstance. This post serves only to help people find useful links and resources that might be helpful when taking legal actions.

Reddit's Official Documents

User Agreement (ToS)

Under section 5 (Your Content)

By submitting Your Content to the Services, you represent and warrant that you have all rights, power, and authority necessary to grant the rights to Your Content contained within these Terms. Because you alone are responsible for Your Content, you may expose yourself to liability if you post or share Content without all necessary rights.

When Your Content is created with or submitted to the Services, you grant us a worldwide, royalty-free, perpetual, irrevocable, non-exclusive, transferable, and sublicensable license to use, copy, modify, adapt, prepare derivative works of, distribute, store, perform, and display Your Content and any name, username, voice, or likeness provided in connection with Your Content in all media formats and channels now known or later developed anywhere in the world.

Under section 18 (Miscellaneous)

Our failure to exercise or enforce any right or provision of these Terms will not operate as a waiver of such right or provision

Source: https://www.redditinc.com/policies/user-agreement

Privacy Policy

Under section 5 (Your Rights and Choices):

When you delete your account, your profile is no longer visible to other users and disassociated from content you posted under that account. Please note, however, that the posts, comments, and messages you submitted prior to deleting your account will still be visible to others unless you first delete the specific content.

Source: https://www.reddit.com/policies/privacy-policy

Support Pages

No, if you delete a post or comment, it’s removed from Reddit and moderators and Reddit administrators won’t be able to bring it back for you. So before you delete something, be absolutely sure.

Source: https://support.reddithelp.com/hc/en-us/articles/360043483451-If-I-delete-a-post-or-comment-can-it-be-restored

POV you report transphobia over on exploding-heads.com (TW: bigotry) in c/196@lemmy.blahaj.zone
[–] valveman@lemmy.fmhy.ml 2 points 2 years ago

Bro got jealous of China and "The Great Wall of Text"

Mates, today without warning, the reddit royal navy attacked. I've been demoded by the admins. in c/piracy@lemmy.dbzer0.com
[–] valveman@lemmy.fmhy.ml 3 points 2 years ago

Well, they could just say: "We made a script to track every mod who closed their sub, revogate its mod permissions and notify all other mods in the sub with an automatic message", which basically frees them from any charges regarding community content.

They could, however, be sued for not actively removing illegal content, such as pirated things and MAP related things (e.g. r/jailbait)

Mates, today without warning, the reddit royal navy attacked. I've been demoded by the admins. in c/piracy@lemmy.dbzer0.com
[–] valveman@lemmy.fmhy.ml 13 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago) (5 children)

Isn't Reddit GDPR copliant? Because if they are, they can't simply undelete things without users' permission

*Permanently Deleted* in c/lemmyworld@lemmy.world
[–] valveman@lemmy.fmhy.ml 10 points 2 years ago

The Fediverse is almost unpoisonable by these people, since we can just open another instance and block interactions with those we don't like.

This comment right here in c/reddit@lemmy.ml
[–] valveman@lemmy.fmhy.ml 6 points 2 years ago (1 children)

LMAO, what? Protests ain't fun at all and aren't meant to be. Here in my country, it's pretty common to see public school teachers doing protests and strikes demanding better salaries, then get shot by cops using rubber bullets or get some pepper spray in the face. I don't think they protest because getting shot is "funny", they do because they want a real change for everyone.

Also, the protesters ARE (or at the very least should be) aware of the risks and downsides. If the people you work with decided to make a strike because of something they don't like or agree with in your workplace, they are at least aware they may be replaced by scabs or get fired. Likewise, the mods and users who embraced the protest were aware the community content would be inaccessible and they'd have to find other things to do aside doomscrolling all day.

So no excuses here, people got into this because they really want some changes, and those who didn't either: are Reddit bootlickers; aren't aware of the real impact the API changes are going to make or; aren't able to reach much people without staying on Reddit (here I talk specifically about FMHY and Piracy communities)

What's with this abrupt fall? in c/lemmy@lemmy.ml
[–] valveman@lemmy.fmhy.ml 4 points 2 years ago

Just guessing, but maybe this has something to do with instances overload