Requesting my comments to be deleted on a website

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  wendywarrior · Member · May 18, 2017 at 3:23 pm

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  Hello!

  I published comments on a website processed by WordPress (not mine). The webmaster refuses to delete my comments.
  Legally, can he keep my comments despite of my requests to delete them?

  Regards,

  WendyWarrior

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  fstat · Staff · May 18, 2017 at 4:33 pm

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  Hi there,

  Unfortunately, it is not possible to delete comments you have left on other WordPress.com blogs. The documentation suggests contacting the site’s owner and ask him to delete them for you. Which you already did…

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  wendywarrior · Member · May 18, 2017 at 4:50 pm

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  Thank you fstat.

  I asked the webmaster to delete my comments, indeed. And he refused. Is he legally allowed to refuse deleting?

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  fstat · Staff · May 18, 2017 at 4:57 pm

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  I’m afraid he is because blog owners are in full control of the comments on their blogs.