Reddit Bans 11-Year Account for GPL Game Post, Testing the EU's DSA (reddit.com) 180
Longtime Slashdot reader DF5JT writes: On July 26, I posted a single announcement in r/backgammon: GNU Backgammon for Android, GPLv3, the first standalone backgammon engine on F-Droid. Reddit's spam filter removed the post and permanently banned my 11-year, 30,000-karma account -- the result is publicly visible at reddit.com/user/OE1FEU. To this day, Reddit has given no reason whatsoever, although Article 17 of the EU's Digital Services Act makes a statement of reasons mandatory. The only appeal channel is a 250-character web form that sends no confirmation and has never been answered; Reddit's own help text admits: "you may not have received a message to your inbox." A GDPR export of 11 years of data came to 7.2 MB; every post was truncated after a few lines, with zero data about the ban decision.
So I spent one day escalating through every mechanism the EU provides: certified out-of-court dispute settlement at Austria's RTR, complaints with the Austrian and Dutch Digital Services Coordinators, the data protection authority (citing the ECJ's SCHUFA ruling on automated decisions), noyb, and Austria's consumer association. Bonus finding: the European Commission's DSA Transparency Database contains 14,067 Reddit statements of reasons for that week -- none for my ban -- and the Commission's own feedback form limits reports to 500 characters and crashed with a 500 Server Error. Is the DSA enforceable for ordinary users, or just paperwork?
So I spent one day escalating through every mechanism the EU provides: certified out-of-court dispute settlement at Austria's RTR, complaints with the Austrian and Dutch Digital Services Coordinators, the data protection authority (citing the ECJ's SCHUFA ruling on automated decisions), noyb, and Austria's consumer association. Bonus finding: the European Commission's DSA Transparency Database contains 14,067 Reddit statements of reasons for that week -- none for my ban -- and the Commission's own feedback form limits reports to 500 characters and crashed with a 500 Server Error. Is the DSA enforceable for ordinary users, or just paperwork?
Nationality checks out (Score:2)
He really is following the regulations, that's good!
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Re:Nationality checks out (Score:4, Funny)
This is a bit too new to tell (Score:5, Informative)
The DSA has teeth, but bureaucracy is slow. It may also be necessary to level some impressive fines under the DSA before it becomes respected by the usual US social media asshole companies. If you do, say, a GDPR data request (which does include data on why something was banned, demonetized, etc.) even YouTube reacts fast, because they all know this can get extremely expensive and can get them shut down in Europe if they mess it up too often.
Re:This is a bit too new to tell (Score:5, Insightful)
The DSA has teeth, but bureaucracy is slow.
Which is often intentional.
We live in 2026. You can order an artillery or drone strike in Ukraine from a tablet and it'll be delivered within minutes. Data processing speeds are essentially instant for data sets not on LLM sizes. We have automation everywhere when it suits the right people. e.g. that speeding ticket you received for going 12 km/h over the limit? No human ever so much as saw that. Full automated process. Takes 6-12 weeks. Why? Because otherwise you might still remember how fast you were actually going or that you weren't even in that street on that day, and fight it. Same principle here: The slower the bureaucracy, the more people will just give up and go away. It's a self-regulating system to reduce the number of inquiries to the amount that the public servants can comfortably process.
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Eh, it's kind of like a terminal that makes time between login attempts to prevent a brute force attack.
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We have automation everywhere when it suits the right people. e.g. that speeding ticket you received for going 12 km/h over the limit? No human ever so much as saw that. Full automated process. Takes 6-12 weeks. Why? Because otherwise you might still remember how fast you were actually going or that you weren't even in that street on that day, and fight it. Same principle here: The slower the bureaucracy, the more people will just give up and go away. It's a self-regulating system to reduce the number of inquiries to the amount that the public servants can comfortably process.
My dudes, the system, our system(s) aren't perfect. I'm with you, the issue is the volume of shit courts have to deal with, and the solution is not super high speed automated dispute resolution systems to deal with even more automated speeding tickets, it's to lower the volume of bullshit, and less speeding tickets that do nothing good for anyone.
But complaining about getting in front of a judge to discuss how The Internet Moderators have treated you, what the fuck are you doing with your life. Again, the p
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This is all the more offensive when companies try to hide behind section 230 for their own capricious actions while explicitly violating it to remove cont
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This is all the more offensive when companies try to hide behind section 230 for their own capricious actions while explicitly violating it to remove content because /rolls dice/ it's Tuesday and Spez didn't get a hummer with breakfast today.
Dammit. I was with you right up until this part.
Section 230 EXPLICITY grants operators the protection to block anything they damn well please -even something which is otherwise legally protected speech is explicitly allowed to be blocked solely at their discretion with no recourse.
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Keep in mind though that this is Europe. Here if they make an automated decision, they have to explain it on request.
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You didn't get it. This is speeding tickets issued by fully automated systems. No court has ever seen this.
The solution is to stop treating it as a money-printing system. Punish people who speed in front of kindergardens, and leave people alone who at the city edge in the industrial zone on a Sunday evening didn't decelerate quite fast enough coming in from the highway.
But complaining about getting in front of a judge to discuss how The Internet Moderators have treated you, what the fuck are you doing with your life.
I literally have no clue why you're saying that or who you think you're talking to.
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Not directly intentional, no. Bureaucracies are designed to be slow and careful. The "careful" part may not always be present, but the "slow" part is always there and it is not a question of technology.
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Not at all. Because COMFORT is the key word here, not processing.
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The DSA has teeth, but bureaucracy is slow. It may also be necessary to level some impressive fines under the DSA before it becomes respected by the usual US social media asshole companies. If you do, say, a GDPR data request (which does include data on why something was banned, demonetized, etc.) even YouTube reacts fast, because they all know this can get extremely expensive and can get them shut down in Europe if they mess it up too often.
Play bureaucratic games, Win bureaucratic prizes.
Similar issue (Score:5, Interesting)
I created a throwaway account, as is normal practice on Reddit when you want to ask something without it being tied to your main account, and it was quickly perma banned, and a 7 day ban applied to my main account.
I submitted a DSAR under GDPR rules, and like DF5JT I just got some truncated crap and none of the information I actually wanted.
Currently going through legal action with Reddit over this. In their initial defence they admitted that the ban was automated, and when I appealed a human looked at it and confirmed it. The ban was for being a bot, which obviously I'm not, so they admitted they made a mistake that really human review should have fixed. It appears that they also deleted the data that I asked for, which is a fairly severe GDPR violation. On top of that, they tried to gaslight me about it, for example by showing fake login errors and a fake password reset process, in order to supposedly access the DSAR data, when in fact they had already deleted both the account and data.
Currently waiting for mediation to be scheduled, basically a 1 hour phone session where an intermediary tries to see if there is a way we can settle without it getting to court. Given they have admitted they screwed up, and have deleted the data I asked for, and seem to have a policy of abusing users who submit a DSAR...
Re:Similar issue (Score:5, Interesting)
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Yeah, but at least if I prevail they will have to compensate me for their asshole techbro policies.
Re:Similar issue (Score:4, Funny)
Reddit is owned by greedy corporate asshole hipsters in SF (including Sam Altman of OpenAI) who don't give 2 flying fucks about EU regulations
They may not care about EU regulations but they'll give a damn about the fines as they're turnover based and not profit based. The wheels grind slow but when the EU thinks you're a scofflaw they grind mighty fine.
Re: Similar issue (Score:2)
That's true to a certain degree in all countries. But let's not pretend that the couch fire that is the EU is comparable to the entire neighbourhood burned to ashes that is the USA.
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the difference is power. the us still has a great deal, the eu hardly any. it shows in the behavior.
the us has been unchecked and free to do around the world without any consequence at all for 2 decades, and payback is indeed coming but the us is, if anyting fails, still in a hugely privileged geopolitical position and has huge resources for an eventual comeback, and to begin with the us is a country.
the eu is a burocratic construct run by elites with a very uncertain future commandeering a bunch of countri
Re:Similar issue (Score:4)
methinks he's referring to uk's gdpr, as eu regulations don't apply in uk.
Most of them actually do apply in the UK.
As the UK did not cancel/remove/replace them after Brexit.
Lets guess: you are actually a britt, lives in UK, voted for Brexit - and does not know this?
Re:Similar issue (Score:5, Interesting)
Best of luck to you, and I hope Reddit gets the screws put to them bigtime.
I don't know much about this stuff. My first thought is that the law should force companies like Reddit to have a DSAR banner on every page their site serves. It would show the total number of DSARs filed to date, and have a link to a page listing ALL of them, both pending and resolved - with personally identifiable stuff redacted, of course.
If legislation forced such businesses to make every gaslighting move blatantly public, maybe the behaviour would improve.
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Reddit, like many companies, relies on having an automated system to process DSARs. You make a request and it shits out a zip file with some data in text formats like XML. Unfortunately that data is incomplete, and doesn't cover anything that isn't available by simply looking at your account page. You also can't get it if the account has been deleted.
Unfortunately the UK's regulator is useless, so legal action is the only way to get this stuff resolved.
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I created a throwaway account, as is normal practice on Reddit when you want to ask something without it being tied to your main account
You do know Reddit has privacy settings now to prevent people from browsing through your post history? Ironically, Slashdot doesn't, so now everyone who looks at your post history here will know you were asking some sort of awkward question on Reddit.
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I'm aware, but they can of course use Google or just recognize the name. I wish Reddit let you change your username.
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No idea if that's you or not, but I promise I'm not stalking you - That's just how stunningly useless Reddit's privacy controls are.
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I don't have the privacy settings enabled on my account. If someone really wants to read through my post history on Reddit, it's their sanity to lose.
Re:Similar issue (Score:5, Informative)
Reddit explicitly allows multiple accounts: https://support.reddithelp.com... [reddithelp.com]
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Moreover, the more you post on Reddit, the chance of getting banned in one or more subs approaches 100%, and the only way around it, at least outside of the EU, is to create a new account.
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Yes, but has your main account ever been suspend before or banned on a sub?
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I don't think so. Maybe 1 sub, you know what Reddit moderators are like. Actually, yeah, I think it was the doolally lot over on some nuclear power sub. But I blocked it and didn't try to access it - the ban happened before I even had a chance to.
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The way Reddit mods are and given the age of the account, this would be extraordinary if it was only 1 or 2 subs.
My current account is a shade over a year old and I got a ban like three months in from an asshole mod in the Google Voice sub for participating in a conversation about spoofed GV numbers.
I got another one in an investment sub because they use bots to check your history and I had made a comment in a Vanguard sub.
Very arbitrary stuff there.
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A ban from one sub. Most people have one if they have spent any amount of time on Reddit. It's not considered circumvention, unless it's used to do actual circumvention of the sub ban, which it wasn't.
Reddit has a corporation in the UK, who are the ones defending this.
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This is why I've abandoned Reddit (for the second time), almost exactly the day after my first Cake Day with the new account. I appealed the second one-week ban and it surprisingly got overturned, but I decided I was still done with them. In my particular case, it was a comment on the video of the incident at a Cubs game where a middle-aged to elderly veteran slapped someone in the head for not standing up for the national anthem. All I said was "that guy better watch his knees, that's where I'd be targetin
Enforceable for ordinary users? (Score:2)
No laws are enforceable for ordinary users. They are enforceable for courts. The ordinary user would be required to use an enforcement mechanism such as a government commission (which seems to have failed you) or through a legal process such as suing the company directly, ideally filing lawsuit against them in Amsterdam where they are based.
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Maybe they should post it on Reddit instead with a new account, where someone who can actually fix the problem might see it?
Although, knowing Reddit, it will detect that he's coming in from the same IP or computer as the banned account and auto ban that one as well. So... maybe use a VPN and a different browser first, assuming that's still allowed.
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I come here for the dupes. Repetition is the key to retention!
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Might want to slow down on that popcorn anyway with your country's current health care system.
I'll take non-sequiturs for 1000 Bob.
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Shows how little you know.
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Yet another year goes by and we did NOT have 175k people die like in the EU.
Everybody's health care has it's problems, but when I check for a comparison I get.
so even on average you'd be better off in the EU.
Re:Enforceable for ordinary users? (Score:4, Interesting)
It's not government control though, it's people forcing the judicial branch (DSA) to help individual user to have some control over their online life against IT companies. Some IT companies have budgets larger than some small European nations. European users have rights when companies do their advertisement business in Europe. This is giving individuals more options, not less. What's the alternative? Give up and let foreign companies do whatever they want with no recourse?
Re: Enforceable for ordinary users? (Score:5, Insightful)
There is an asymmetrical relationship between companies and users, in terms of the resources they can throw at the problem and the consequences of their actions. Reddit, or Google or Apple can destroy years of your content for no good reason and not even provide a person you can talk to, meanwhile they require contact information from you and happily use it to send marketing messages you don't want.
Fixing the asymmetry is a great use of government regulation! As an American, I think it's super weird that you think in a country "by the people and for the people", Reddit should be able to write the rules and tell the people where to head in.
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I think it's super weird that you think in a country "by the people and for the people", Reddit should be able to write the rules and tell the people where to head in.
Most people are prosperity worshippers. They think anyone successful deserves to be successful. Therefore they think corporations are great and we should listen to what they tell us. They've also never known anything else.
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Not people, companies. The EU does not have an equivalent to the U.S. Citizens United ruling that declares that companies are people.
Do you think they should?
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Not people, companies. The EU does not have an equivalent to the U.S. Citizens United ruling that declares that companies are people.
Do you think they should?
I think that the EU should write its own social media, shopping and websites. Then you can dictate every aspect of them. NO reddit, no Google, No Apple, no Facebook, nothing that people in here claim Europeans do not want.
Why is that not clear? You want total control, set up a system that allows total control. Geoblock countries that are not obeying. Then make it a crime to use a VPN to illegally access the offenders. Really not that difficult.
I'm acknowledged as stupid, but I geoblock many European
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As could Reddit, Google, Apple, Facebook and so on. But they prefer the occasional fines to pulling out of Europe. That's their choice and I think we should respect it.
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As could Reddit, Google, Apple, Facebook and so on. But they prefer the occasional fines to pulling out of Europe. That's their choice and I think we should respect it.
Your point? If these companies just pay the fines as a CODB, then it is just teh EU collecting a tax. The EU would then want the companies to continue so theycan collect more taxes. Over here, we consider it beer or tobacco taxes. In the guise of trying to make something so expensive people stop using it, they make themselves financially dependent on the thing they are claiming they are trying to eliminate.
A complete lie.
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Aren't you the one trying to get the internet you want by geoblocking?
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Aren't you the one trying to get the internet you want by geoblocking?
This is not remotely the same thing. I see what I want, they do not see me. They get a polite notice that the content is not available in their area. The EU demanded I alter my websites to comply with their rules. Me deciding not to is an action of not trying to get the internet I want, but to comply.
I have not one reason to do geoblock them on my behalf - the entire world is welcome to what is on my pages. But since the EU demanded it be changed or to put their hands in my wallet, I simply accommodated
Re:Enforceable for ordinary users? (Score:4, Insightful)
What you're defending here is Reddit being shit.
Why would you defend shit?
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What you're defending here is Reddit being shit.
No, it's not defending shit - it's pointing out the absurdity of someone being upset that the free plate 'o shit they'd ordered actually turned out to contain shit.
Plus, the problem with these sort of laws is that they disincentivize the actions necessary to create more competition. Why would you start your own forum to compete with the existing cesspits if you have to worry about getting sued every time you nuke somebody's account?
Re: Enforceable for ordinary users? (Score:3)
The free plate of shit is not free. There are costs to society from it existing. It cannot exist without society. Therefore it is reasonable for society to regulate it.
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No one said government control. Laws are in place everywhere, the only way an end user can enforce that law is by taking it to court. That's not European, that's normal.
I've never ate so much popcorn this early in the day.
Have you considered replacing the popcorn with reading comprehension? Or is being outraged about things you make up in your head your drug of choice?
Reddit (Score:2)
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Which makes me wonder, is there an EU rule on how popcorn must be popped?
Most certainly.
The temperature to make it, is limited, to avoid producing nitrosamine.
Simple example, there are probably more.
What is your farking problem with rules?
It is tiring to sue one for compensation of damage who should have known before that he is producing damage.
So we we make a damn rule, so we do not have to sue, but can point at the rule.
Simple.
Get a clue.
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I've never ate so much popcorn
What is it with Yanks and conjugation!? *eaten*
Me flunk English? That's unpossible!
Welcome to technofeudalism! (Score:3)
Never try to build an elaborate homestead in the surf zone of an ocean controlled by some mercurial megacorp.
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EU has a DSA? (Score:2)
What is the Democratic Socialists of America doing in EUrope?
Think that's a violation ? X says "Hold my beer!" (Score:2)
https://postory.io/blog/twitter-suspended-appeal
https://inspiretothrive.com/twitter-jail/
Welcome to perma ban (Score:2, Troll)
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Heh, I got a site wide ban on Reddit this weekend. On a story about an American company with ties to Trump, illegally in Greenland with a bunch of drilling equipment that they've been expressly told they do not have authority to use.
Someone posted that they should be arrested. I replied that we've already set the precedent that they're in the country illegally, working illegally, so they should be arrested and then deported to El Salvador.
Some AI decided that I was promoting hate speech, and I got banned.
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I once got perma-banned for advocating violence against Amelia Earhart. I still say that bitch has it coming.
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For two years, now, I've been unable to create a new account that lasts more than a few minutes before being banned, regardless of using VPN, different email addresses, etc. Not sure how they trace them back to me, or why they would go to such lengths.
If you're using Windows it would appear it could be the Microsoft GDID. If you're still using the same browser it could be your unique ID they get from that.
Idiotic AI (Score:2)
Reddit have 11 year-long accounts? (Score:2, Funny)
I thought they required you to create a new account every time you log in.
Though that may have been 20 years ago. Last time I saw a reason to go there.
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That is because you mix up:
Sign in with
Sign up
And the Sign UP button is highlighted and default.
Blame the web designer.
I have a friend with ~20 Facebook accounts, every time, the cooky runs out, he makes a new one, and gets himself as first friend suggestion.
Always takes days to recover the original account.
This is just modern 'computing.' (Score:3)
Usually it is something small, until you need to get something done and keep running into poorly managed computer services.
Computers are convenient until they aren't, then you waste time tracking down a human that can't fix it except to say 'you are screwed.'
Be Patient (Score:2)
Was it signed in triplicate, sent in, sent back, queried, lost, found, subjected to public inquiry, lost again, and finally buried in soft peat for three months and recycled as firelighters?
If you're not paying... you're the product... (Score:4, Interesting)
Now that all this information is valuable (to AI bot scrapers), it's all being gatekept from humans who refuse to log in and participate in generating more valuable content for AI bot scrapers.
It's basically Farmville (but for scrapeable content), but restricted to the existing domesticated population of users. If you refuse to have a collar put on you, you no longer are allowed to access an echo copy of information that used to be on the open web before SEO garbage displaced it all.
Surfing with javascript turned off to help defend against drive-by 0-days? Half a dozen anti-bot systems either block or temp ban you. Use the wrong IP address, and reddit prevents access.
You could say this is a natural evolution of order in a capitalist society, as explained by Cory Doctorow's views on enshittification. However, I would argue this goes back even further to RMS' views on open vs closed software. Essentially, when no money is at stake, people are willing to share. When money is at stake, people start putting the things people were sharing behind closed doors and charging for entry.
If you extend the open source metaphor, being able to fork your posts theoretically allows individuals (and by extension a community) to transcend greed and censorship. Consider how much historical content (both virtual and IRL) has become cancellable in the last 4 presidential administrations, depending on which side of the current wave of bandwagoning you stand on. Even before that, how much content was rejected or "rewritten" on spaces like Wikipedia to satisfy the personal views of editors who staked out and camped specific areas on Wikipedia. Mind you, this was before Wikipedia became a force multiplier for influencing, which led to attacks by astroturfers and state actors.
Which then leads me to the question... what forkable, censorship resistant alternatives to reddit exist? I don't want to have a brand just to have my own legion of supporters to defend and reinstate me, or rely on glacial bureaucracy mandated by law if I get deplatformed just for having a conversation just because some AI bot had a bad day.
Reddit used to be open source (Score:3)
These are clear indications of the beginning of an abusive regime.
Slash, the content management engine behind Slashdot is still open source though.
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Keep an eye on Reddit. See if one of their pals releases a Backgammon game in the near future.
Also, Reddit is advertising supported. Did OP buy an ad? There's that to consider as well.
he forgot (Score:2)
He forgot to go through the Department of Bureaucracy Reduction.
100% offline (Score:2)
I don't play BackGammon but just reading the description on fdroid I fully support this app. The fact you can play this game completely offline without weirdo monetization or needing to phone home or be online is what I'm talking about. Why this post or game should get someone banned is absolutely bananas....
Then again I suppose the "AI" running inside Reddit is jealous that the AI for this game cab be fully offline and not be stuck in a data center and can be out in the world. Albeit it's still playing bac
Re: I don't understand why this is considered... (Score:3)
This is not about this particular ban. It is about empowering individuals and constraining bad behavior of large organizations that have an outsize influence on marketplace accessibility.
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Agreed that this is forum drama. It sucks to lose an account but nothing of value was actually lost. You don't really own your accounts in the first place. Imagine the uproar of people posting on Reddit about how they lost their /. account. There would literally be tens of people outraged!!!
Reddit doesn't owe you anything. Facebook doesn't owe you anything. Twitter doesn't owe you anything. Slashdot doesn't owe you anything. Your free contributions are what they sell. If you don't like it, then go
Re:I don't understand why this is considered... (Score:4, Insightful)
Reddit doesn't owe you anything. Facebook doesn't owe you anything. Twitter doesn't owe you anything. Slashdot doesn't owe you anything.
The law says they do owe me something.
Turn your brain on.
On second thought, I think Bill Gates still owes me $100 for helping him test his email tracking program back in 1998 when I forwarded that email for him.
You do know that wasn't Bill Gates, right?
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Reddit doesn't owe you anything. Facebook doesn't owe you anything. Twitter doesn't owe you anything. Slashdot doesn't owe you anything.
The law says they do owe me something.
Does it? What exactly do they owe you? Can you cite the law that says so?
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Can you cite the law that says so?
I CAN cite the law that says so. One of many.
If you had bothered to read the summary, you could cite the law, too.
Re:I don't understand why this is considered... (Score:5, Informative)
Agreed that this is forum drama. It sucks to lose an account but nothing of value was actually lost.
How can you write such nonsense?
Reddit doesn't owe you anything. Facebook doesn't owe you anything. Twitter doesn't owe you anything. Slashdot doesn't owe you anything.
They do, idiot.
They have the obligation to treat me as a human being, and not randomly delete my stuff and then pretend they did not do anything wrong.
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If you don't like it, then go play in another sandbox.
Or start your own. Just perhaps not in some country where you can get fined for running a free service that people are unhappy with. /s
Re:I don't understand why this is considered... (Score:4, Interesting)
It's news because:
1) Reddit is shown to be heavy-handed (probably not especially new information to many people, but hey)
2) That the European laws designed to level the playing field between ordinary user and mega corps aren't working properly. $mega_corp is essentially half-arsing the responses they're legally required to give. If that catches the eye of the authorities, then it could mean mega fines to $mega_corp.
Mega fines are kinda useful to know about, even if you're not in the EU. Those fines have altered the behaviour of quite a few mega corps in recent years - not as much as some would have liked, I'm sure, but it's happened anyway. Sometimes we see $mega_corps trying to maliciously comply or whatever, which has ramifications for users everywhere. Say nothing of the business impact of receiving a huge fine (and the EU does tend to extract enough money that it makes the C-suite sit up and take notice, rather than write it off as a cost of doing business).
I know some here are saying "just get a new account at move on" - a reasonable view to take _if you're a powerless and unmotivated individual_. The EU tries to empower its people, so that doesn't apply quite so cleanly as it might in other places.
So yeah, not news about such and such a particle can be used to blast alzheimers out of taxi drivers brains or whatever, but at tech-adjacent at the very least.
Re:I don't understand why this is considered... (Score:5, Interesting)
If being denied from posting on a forum with a decades old account isn't news here, then I don't know what this site is even for anymore man.
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The issue is that Reddit is not complaint with GDPR rules. It's actually bigger than Reddit, because a lot of companies are not compliant because compliance would reveal how their automated systems work.
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Reddit has a subsidiary in the UK. They also claim that their Swiss operation is responsible for data protection in Europe, but I doubt that the court will buy that. It's an attempt to make it harder to exercise GDPR rights, while still doing business in the UK.
Reddit has a subsidiary in the UK. (Score:2)
If you mean the island comprised of England, Scotland and Whales, then they left the EU a few years ago.
There is another UK, (it is East of Poland) but Tsar Vladimir insists they are part of Russia.
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We still have GDPR and Reddit still claims that their Swiss outfit is the one to deal with it. As I said, I doubt the court will buy that.
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Yes, and No.
Most large corporations are truly multi-national vs inter-national. They have chosen to open branches in various European nations to avoid paying taxes to the USA. In so doing they affirmatively agreed to follow the laws of the local nation and the EU in general. The EU citizen is interacting with an EU business under the laws of the EU.
For businesses that exist in one nation, then I would agree with you. The EU citizen reached out via the internet (aka travelled internationally) to do busin
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why the hell are adults pretending that an old Reddit account with some karma has any kind of real world value?
Nobody is pretending you're an adult. There's no value in that.
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This has zero to do with what value anyone thinks the account has. The point is there are laws that are supposed to provide end users some form of control over their lives which are otherwise solely dictated by corporations. Focusing on reddit itself seems like you completely missed the point of the story.
Replace Reddit account with, your small business's Google Account. Does your complaint still hold?
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Reddit does not control your life. What you're saying is 100% counterfactual and downright hysterical.
Nevermind, I figured it out. You have zero reading comprehension. Normally I would say try again, but given your analysis of TFS and of my post I think that would be a waste of everyone's time.
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And it's annoying. I just want to see a piece of technical information that was posted, I have no need or desire to login, and no account to login with.
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That sounds like the MS package is doing the blocking, not Reddit.