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Originally Posted by Runesmith
GDPR does not cover information that you voluntarily post on the internet, for the express purpose of public display, for which you have given implicit or explicit consent. GDPR applies to specific items of data that is collected from you for specific purposes.
Posting on a public forum implies consent to publicly display what you post - if not, what's the fucking purpose of a forum?
You may be referring to the "right to be forgotten" (which applies to publicly available information about you that you didn't express consent to have published - eg. a news report), but again, that does not apply to posts you voluntarily make on social media.
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Right to be forgotten is part of the GDPR.
And under that right, forum posts do not have to be removed as it could lead to strange forum usage. There is an exception for it in the GDPR implementation in The Netherlands at least and surely also the general one.
A profile/registration itself however falls under that right.
And the nickname as well, so under that right, a profile should be at the very least anonimized if somebody calls upon it and posts that have that nickname in it should be changed to the anonimized nickname.