Deleting posts (from Green circle around profile pic)

[[Member sdr…]]

10 hours ago, opentype said:

Someone could mass-delete their post and render entire discussions useless and so on. 

Not allowing deletion of one's own message is a violation of privacy. In this case,  Salon is following the same crude attitude of smule personal message implementers.

[[Member sdr…]]

10 hours ago, opentype said:

Someone could make a normal post and then later replace it with spam links

Right to rectification of errors

These rights are statute-specific.  Some laws, such as the FCRA, provide consumers with a right to review data about the consumer held by an entity and request corrections to errors in that data.  At the state level, the right to correct information commonly attaches to credit reports, as well as criminal justice information, employment records, and medical records.

■    Right to deletion

These rights are statute-specific.  By way of federal law example, COPPA provides parents the right to review and delete their children’s information and may require that data be deleted even in the absence of a request.  Some state laws, such as the CCPA and the CDPA, provide a right of deletion for residents of the respective states, with certain exceptions.

Check this link.

https://iclg.com/practice-areas/data-protection-laws-and-regulations/usa/amp

[[Member open…]]

4 hours ago, sdr said:

Not allowing deletion of one's own message is a violation of privacy. 

No, it is not, because forum posts in general aren’t “personal data”, which all these laws are about. It very clearly states that even in the quotes you posted. (It doesn’t say “content posted on the internet”, it says “data about the consumer”). So, stop causing confusion here in the community by making false and misleading claims. I am a professional web designer since 1999 and run multiple online communities for 20+ years. You can be sure that I know and follow all these laws, when they apply internationally.