I might have to look more into my state’s right to be forgotten law. I used PDS for about 2 weeks until no more zombie posts were in my profile (most resurrected by the opening of closed subs). I was cleaning out some gaming book marks and clicked on a reddit thread I’d kept and, lo and behold, I found myself in the comments. Except I’d purged all of those. And searching for myself yields no results. This is…disappointing.

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    Does it work on permanently suspended accounts?

    (The reason for was for “mod abuse” for reporting too much misinformation in a right-wing safe space subreddit, in case anybody was wondering.)

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      Is it just me or is “permanently suspended” an oxymoron?

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        Yeah, it’s stupidly euphemistic. I’m not sure if that language is used just to distinguish it as a sitewide action by the admins (as opposed to a single-subreddit “ban” from that sub’s mods), or if there’s some more calculated/nefarious reason for it (maybe being “banned” from an account has legal implications that being “suspended” doesn’t?).

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        So being banned means you forfeit control of your data? 🤔

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            When you signed up to reddit, you accepted the User Agreement and gave reddit permission to use your data in any way they like:

            A user agreement does not supercede federal law…

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                You can’t have it both ways. What you’re saying is that a user agreement supercedes federal law (GDPR), and then turning around saying it doesn’t. Which one is it?

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                    You said if your account was “suspended” (banned) that you no longer have access to your GDPR info, because of the user agreement.