> if there is no link between the user and the data, that satisfies a right to erasure request. That is not what is happening here
Clearly not, as the data and links to user profile has been restored.
> but it is not as if reddit has no way to keep deleted comments and still be GDPR compliant.
They would have to prove that the data is irreversibly anonymized - which is tricky. Say they keep threads by supplanting an opaque (guuid) user id - and a single message in a single thread mentions a users full name, phone number or email in a reply? Now all of that users messages are associated with a
person....
