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Submission + - Reddit Bans 11-Year Account For Announcing a GPL Game, stress testing EU DSA (reddit.com) 3

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 never 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 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?

Comment Too easy to get off into the weeds (Score 1) 121

The AI at work, an isolated instance of Claude Sonnet 4.5, makes it too easy for me to get distracted. I end up investigating something related to something related to something related to what I should be working on. In no time at all I'm out past left field, over the fence, across the parking lot and into the taco stand on the other side of the highway.

Comment When will anyone else say "enough already" (Score 2) 35

I'm ready to drive a wooden stake into the heart of these AI companies. They're consuming everything and delivering great promises. What good is the ultimate AI if the AI companies swallow all the resources on their way to the top. Or bottom. The only thing the human have left are stone knives & bears kins.

Comment Standard Trump contract negotiation tactics (Score 1) 127

Threaten flaming nuclear death and settle for a 15% reduction in contract price which he can loudly brag about. Not mentioned is the reduction in service depth or the verbal agreement to expand and relocate Anthropic's offices in NYC & San Fran into properties owned or managed by Trump or Kushner. Everybody wins! Making Amerika great.

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