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Because they *can* store user-deleted comments and data indefinitely. It's in their terms of service that you agree to when creating your account with them. You grant them an irrevocable license to any content that you submit.
And the legality of PushShift storing user-deleted comments and data falls on PushShift's responsibility. Reddit isn't liable if illegal content remains available through Pushshift, the people hosting the content are always the people responsible for it.
Comment by norrin83 at 02/06/2023 at 12:38 UTC
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Because they can store user-deleted comments and data indefinitely. It's in their terms of service that you agree to when creating your account with them. You grant them an irrevocable license to any content that you submit.
They can't store it indefinitely. It is explicitly stated in their privacy policy[1].
1: https://www.reddit.com/policies/privacy-policy
And the legality of PushShift storing user-deleted comments and data falls on PushShift's responsibility. Reddit isn't liable if illegal content remains available through Pushshift, the people hosting the content are always the people responsible for it.
That I disagree on. Reddit gives data to a third-party upon an agreement. If they fail to cutoff this access once they get knowledge that this third party violates the agreement (and therefore the agreement they made with users), that's on them as well.
That's why I'm very curious in what specifically Reddit and PushShift agrees on. If Reddit lets PushShift willingly violate both agreements with the user as well as laws, that's a major issue for Reddit.