Title: I don&#x27;t mean for the tone of this submission to be confrontational — I&#x27;m a big fan of the HN community and consume much of my news here — but I was recently troubled to learn that HN doesn&#x27;t let users delete some of their content (most notably, user accounts).<p>Granted, this isn&#x27;t a new issue. I see that, according to The Unofficial HN Blog, the solution is to keep your profile anonymous.<p>Still, HN&#x27;s treatment of personal data is somewhat surprising, considering that this community is so progressive when it comes to discussing privacy issues. In fact, some of the privacy-related HN posts about Facebook inspired me to delete my personal data from that site.<p>Why does Facebook seem to be more accommodating than HN when it comes to giving me the freedom to access my own data?
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