I'm not entirely sure they'd need to comply. The question is what the purpose of the data being collected was, but seems to me that if you emphasise the whole idea that this is a conversation (which HN does in several ways) then actually "We don't delete comments" is defensible.

If I'm reading a thread about a problem I'm having in a video game on Reddit and it goes "This is very frustrating because I can't get a rabbit to teleport", then a reply which is [deleted] and then "Oh! Thanks so much, I'd never have figured that out" I'm in exactly the same place as the original poster, but now with the additional agony of knowing that there was a correct solution and that it's hard to figure out what it is - ugh.

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inigyou 4 hours ago | parent [-]

Right to be forgotten is part of GDPR even though most people only think of cookie banners. There's no one-click export, either.

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awsglkhj an hour ago | parent | next [-]

That's cute. Your records are yours. Barring some agreement to the contrary, I have no right to mess with them or inspect them, even if they contain information about me.

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gpvos 18 minutes ago | parent [-]

That's an interesting opinion, but EU law says the opposite.

	▲	awsglkhj 9 minutes ago \| parent [-]
		EU law only matters to those subject to it.

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tialaramex 3 hours ago | parent | prev [-]

Like most of the GDPR "Right to be forgotten" is not an absolute right. As you'll quickly discover when you insist that the bank needs to "forget" that you owe them a lot of money, there are plenty of legitimate reasons they can decline to "forget" you despite your invocation of a "right".