Comment by jonatron
4 months ago
HEXUS stopped publishing in 2021, and the company no longer exists. The forums were kept because they don't take much work to keep online. Now, there's a lot of work to do, like reading hundreds of pages of documents and submitting risk assessments. There's nobody to do that work now, so the idea was it could go into read only mode. The problem with that was, some users may want their data deleted if it becomes read only. Therefore, the only option is to delete it.
Sort of like burning down a library because you can't make it ADA compliant and install a wheelchair ramp.
I feel as though the "sort of" is doing a lot of work there.
Iirc UC Berkeley(?) did exactly that to their YouTube library of recorded lectures due to an accessibility lawsuit.
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I think a more accurate comparison would be burning down a library because you can't afford the manpower to check every single book for arbitrarily defined wrongthink.
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It's more like shutting down a library because you are unwilling to censor the books
Why don't they just anonymize the users? Discourse does this, and it's apparently GDPR compliant.
gdpr compliance depends a lot on who you ask, and only a court can make the final decision.
Stripping all usernames out of a forum certainly makes it safer, but I don't think anyone can say there still won't be a few pissed off users who wrote things they now regret on there, and can be tracked back to individuals based on context/writing style alone.
The online safety act is different to GDPR