Reddit CEO Steve Huffman said he wants to end user-led protest by instituting a rule that would allow users to vote out moderators who have overseen the protest. NBC News’ David Ingram shares the latest.

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    1 year ago

    Which is why I sat for hours this morning, manually deleting all the posts in my subreddit. He is welcome to now hand it to someone else…

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      1 year ago

      There have been reports that reddit is restoring deleted content. Some are saying it may be a GDPR violation if you’re requesting reddit to delete your data.

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        1 year ago

        This needs to be spread more. The right way to delete your content is to request a GDPR / CCPA type deletion. They will be liable for big lawsuits if they don’t comply.

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          I’ve seen reports here from this morning where people are saying that they’re even restoring comments deleted with Redact.

          From a technical standpoint, adding a database table that is a comment revision history is trivial and barely requires any alternation of existing code. Even reddit could do it.

          I’ve always suspected that they did it a long time ago in response to redact.

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      I used Redact.dev. And I’m currently running it a second time since it looks like posts in private subreddits that have since re-opened get reverted (presumably the edit doesn’t go through correctly?).

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      Be careful, People have seen their post deletions being undone. Some posts that were restored were deleted as much as a decade ago. It appears to be manually chosen subreddits getting restored, but it’s something to keep an eye out for.