Comment on Lemmy's Image Problem
Marsupial@quokk.au 2 months agoEh i still dont think itd hold up.
But more reason to hate European arrogance. Imagine if i could go to say your blog, comment my name and address, and sue you for not going into your database and scrubbing it all. Just another way to benefit big companies at the expense of individuals who dont have the tech skills to comply but want to run their own personal sites.
Badeendje@lemmy.world 2 months ago
Such an ignorant stance. Privacy is an individuals RIGHT. It should have been the defacto stance for everything.
You allowed the corporate fuckery to cloud your thinking it is too much to ask for. It isn’t. And GDPR compliance is usually straightforward.
If the blog platform in your example had an option to “delete my account” and it would then completely scrubbed this would be plenty compliant probably. As would the option for people to comment without storing anything but the comment.
Marsupial@quokk.au 2 months ago
It is, which is why you have the RIGHT not to use a public space and push your information out to millions of people. You explicitly agreed to it the second you started doing it.
And if it didn’t? If it’s just a simple piece of software made by two people? Should they drop everything to cater to European demands?
Europe invaded the world, then turns around and tells the world to respect its self imposed rule it enforces on others. We can’t even host our own space on the internet without you invading and threatening us to operate your way. The only safety we apparently have is in our small size means we might escape notice.
It’s utter arrogance.
Badeendje@lemmy.world 2 months ago
Europe funds them. Check where they got their money.
Requiring people (yes also tankies devs) to respect human rights as outlined in many treaties is not a fringe stance.
The GDPR was implemented to require entities to respect human rights by giving privacy watchdogs some teeth. It’s not some strange law people made because they felt like it.
If you don’t understand all of that, maybe just sit down and be quiet.
sudneo@lemmy.world 2 months ago
To be precise, it’s not devs that need to worry about GDPR, it’s instance admins. I don’t disagree with you, but I think it’s an important distinction to make.