correct, my comments are licensed to HN and HN affiliated companies:

>With respect to the content or other materials you upload through the Site or share with other users or recipients (collectively, “User Content”), you represent and warrant that you own all right, title and interest in and to such User Content, including, without limitation, all copyrights and rights of publicity contained therein.

>By uploading any User Content you hereby grant and will grant Y Combinator and its affiliated companies a nonexclusive, worldwide, royalty free, fully paid up, transferable, sublicensable, perpetual, irrevocable license to copy, display, upload, perform, distribute, store, modify and otherwise use your User Content for any Y Combinator-related purpose

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cyberpunk 3 hours ago | parent [-]

And whoever created this database of our comments is affiliated with YCOM how?

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verdverm 3 hours ago | parent | next [-]

Looks like the relationship is not new

https://clickhouse.com/deals/ycombinator

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GeoAtreides 3 hours ago | parent [-]

fine, I guess they're associated to HN and so free to plunder... steal... I mean, legally used my content

ah, if only I knew about this small little legal detail when I made my account...

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hiccuphippo 3 hours ago | parent | next [-]

They can update their privacy policy at any time so it wouldn't have mattered if they added it after you made your account.

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DrewADesign 3 hours ago | parent | prev | next [-]

Functionally, it doesn't matter anyway. These licensing schemes only serve the owners of services large enough to legally badger other moneyed entities into retrospective payments. Individual users have no agency over their submitted content, and nobody in charge of these companies even gives a second thought to keeping it that way. As I've said many times, nobody in this space gives a shit about anything except how they look to investors and potential users-- least of all the people that make the 'content' these machines 'learn'.

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otterley 2 hours ago | parent | prev [-]

Do you have some expectation that when you post your content to some 3P site that you somehow continue to exercise control over it (other than rights under the GDPR)? What basis do you have for this belief?

	▲	GeoAtreides an hour ago \| parent [-]
		> What basis do you have for this belief? The law. And the license agreed when I made the account.

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GeoAtreides 3 hours ago | parent | prev [-]

that's exactly what I'm saying :)