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That will probably be a copyright violation as all your comments and posts belong to Reddit.
Half of reddit is screenshots of twitter posts and reuploads of snapchat videos.
They may claim it's their intellectual property, but it isn't.
It's your data, you have the right to delete it, you have the right to amend it, you have the right to repost it somewhere else.
Lol sue me
I don't think reddit or any social media company gains copyright or ownership of what you post
There's no guarantee that what's being posted even belongs to or is the original creation of the poster.
I'm not sure where Reddit has landed on this, but I know some social media platforms explicitly reject ownership of certain types of content... Because if they insist they own it, they become responsible for it at a higher threshold.
If I start posting a bunch of hate speech in a niche, poorly moderated subreddit... Suddenly Reddit would be on the hook for that.
I know the laws in the USA aren't super tight on that kinda thing but in Europe you can hit some pretty rough consequences pretty quickly.
I’m not gonna bother looking it up cuz I’m at work but usually sites hosting user generated content don’t claim ownership, merely a non-exclusive royalty free license. If they did claim ownership, they’d be on the hook for a looooot of copyright violations. Which is why they don’t do it.
The stack exchange network does claim ownership. Their whole business model is to have a site where users post technical answers to questions, then sue business where an employee copy pasted code blurbs from one of their sites.
I avoid those sites when searching for technical answers for code I'm writing, though I'll sometimes use them for more meta questions (like how to get some tool to do some specific thing).
But it is interesting in that someone could post a code blurb that they didn't own in the first place and now stack exchange will go forward acting as if they do own it. I wonder if that will eventually be their downfall because it seems like a situation that could even be baited deliberately. Hell, they could even already have fraudulent cases tried and/or settled.
dont talk if you dont know buddy