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    If you dive into the site Terms of Service, you'll see that "Stack Overflow [has] the perpetual and irrevocable right and license to ... distribute, export, display and to commercially exploit [Q&A] Content" ......ie) Stack can do whatever they want with Q&A data. There's really no legal basis for a user to sue the company over what they do with Q&A data. Commented May 7, 2024 at 19:57
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    "...with attribution." @AMtwo Commented May 7, 2024 at 19:58
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    @W.O. -- Stack Overflow isn't bound by CC-BY-SA. Commented May 7, 2024 at 20:27
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    I see @AMtwo: "unrestricted by the CC-BY-SA license". Thanks for that detail that I, like a number of others had clearly missed. Commented May 7, 2024 at 20:45
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    @W.O. Agreed. I think many folks don't fully understand how the "dual license" works on contributions. Commented May 8, 2024 at 13:03
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    @AMtwo license or not, the GDPR gives you a right to have your answers deleted. See here how to have your answers deleted for you: meta.stackexchange.com/a/399735/297249 Commented May 9, 2024 at 7:31
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    it is not deletion, just remove your link to th psot by anonymizing you. Commented May 9, 2024 at 7:46
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    Unless you opted out - I think there's also a binding arbitration agreement. While its entirely possible to bring a company to its knees with binding arbitration, a class action suite would be tricky Commented May 9, 2024 at 13:54
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    @henningnolongerfeedsAI If a user submits a gdpr request to be deleted, their Q&A contributions are disassociated from their user account, and the user deleted, but the q&a content remains online, but deidentified. Questions and Answers are NOT deleted. That's how Stack's lawyers determined was the right way to comply. Commented May 10, 2024 at 21:43