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Mr. Scram:

--- Quote from: peter-h on February 13, 2020, 06:20:33 pm ---Excellent news on the Ericsson saga.

They need to be careful re bad publicity in the current Huawei v. Ericsson v. Nokia decision climate :)

We will have to agree to disagree Mr Scram :) If you visit a forum (which, remember, is a site run by somebody else for "your" free enjoyment, and as I well know this is often not a pleasant job due to the activities of a small % of people) and you place something on there, you are publishing it, and you are publishing it for the whole world to see, for eternity. If you don't want to stand behind it, fair enough, but it is not the web server owner's problem to deal with. "You" could post it on your own website where you have total control...

Practically speaking this is why nobody should post anywhere on the internet under their full name. And avoid posting details of where you live, etc. If you have a sensitive job then be extra careful; there are evil and vindictive people out there. Posting under a good alias allows you to walk away from a piece of your life, without destroying a resource you once helped to create.

There are valid exceptions to the above. For example if you write something which later is embarrassing, or which is illegal. In these cases the admins should allow deletion (I always would on the site I run). One funny example was a guy wrote about some trip he did on which he met a girl and "had a good time". Then a month later he contacts me in a panic, saying his wife might see it. I just laughed and removed the offending passage. Other times, stuff has to be removed because some company threatens to sue. So one has to be somewhat careful what one writes if there is p1ssing off potential in it...

A total right to have one's postings deleted would destroy brilliant informative forums like eevblog.

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The law in at least some places luckily seems to disagree at least partially. When you offer a platform for others you have certain responsibilities so it becomes the web server owner's problem to a certain extent. That's not unreasonable either as the website owner is the only person in a position to do anything about it. Aliases are a start but it would definitely be naive to overestimate the little protection those offer. Your behaviour isn't as well hidden as you think even if you take a fair few precautions. Most people don't have a clue to what extent your behaviour is mapped including the website owners mentioned.
peter-h:
You have proved my point to some extent, by quoting my entire post, so if I wanted to edit/delete it, I can't :)

This demonstrates that a right to go back and change stuff is worthless if your post, or parts of it, have been quoted by others. And the admin can't be expected to clean up long threads according to one poster's whim.
Mr. Scram:

--- Quote from: peter-h on February 13, 2020, 07:55:51 pm ---You have proved my point to some extent, by quoting my entire post, so if I wanted to edit/delete it, I can't :)

This demonstrates that a right to go back and change stuff is worthless if your post, or parts of it, have been quoted by others. And the admin can't be expected to clean up long threads according to one poster's whim.

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They actually legally can, at least wherever the GPDR is applicable. Technical hurdles aren't an excuse, although they do contribute to what's still considered reasonable. Though forum software generally doesn't do this currently it could and may very well retain info about what message was quoted. It's likely a lot of software will need to employ similar mechanisms to remain compliant in the future. We'll likely see something similar for backups so data can be destroyed more selectively and effectively. Right now the status quo still offers some protection but new software will have to be developed with these requirements in mind. If you don't the resulting workload is ultimately on you.
Red Squirrel:
Great you came out ahead!  Sadly shows how broken the process is though, that it's basically guilty until proven innocent.
EEVblog:
 :-+

As expected, a bunch of dumb arse legal morons who caved in when they realised what they were asking for was not only wrong, but they had probably breached the law in filing the request.
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