by Guest » Wed Apr 18, 2018 5:43 pm
Yeah, that's about the sum of it.
It would require an EU citizen to request their details, data, and posts to be permanently deleted and, if that did not occur, for that same person to then take legal action. I'm sure, upon seeing that said person wanted a post about uniform colours in the Seven Years Wars removed from a site about toy soldiers, a lawyer/solicitor would take that person aside and tell them to stop wasting everyone's time because the relevant authority would not consider worth anyone's time. And also suggest that person grows the fuck up.
On the off chance that this person did want to keep pushing it, just to slight Bill (which is fair enough) then I have to agree with our guest poster - it is hard to imagine what any external authority could really do to a small-fry, one-man, half-arsed operation in New York.
I suspect even they couldn't be bothered to push it.
The best you could hope for is, as suggested above, the server was being run by a large company that had interests outside the US and had a lot to lose. The authorities would have to go for them and they would, in turn, shut TMP down.
But I couldn't see it ever going so far on such a trivial web forum.
Everyone would just look and laugh and the person who tried to bring the case would just be a news feature where all the newsreaders would be sneering toward them and make the person look like the tedious prat they really are and take great pleasure in mocking some sanctimonious, internet-dwelling, toy soldier playing, manchild who's probably never touched a real pair of tits.
And they'd be dead right.
So.
Fun though it would be winding Bill up over personal data, in reality it will never happen.