> it's also impossible to delete your own data, either on HN or data shared with the Y Combinator startups (except by some 'beware of the leopard' email procedure).
This violates EU's GDPR article 17 I believe, at the very least, thank you for raising the point.
The GDPR “right to erasure” has been widely misinterpreted. It is not a universal right to force companies to delete anything about you. It has a lot of carve outs for things like freedom of expression and public interest. When someone posts publicly on a publicly website that’s archived across the internet, it’s hard to argue that it checks all the boxes for deletion without any of the carveouts and exceptions.
This violates EU's GDPR article 17 I believe, at the very least, thank you for raising the point.