The Archival Reclamation Protocol: Formal Demand for Data Access, Rationale, and Restoration (EA-LEGAL-RECLAMATION-01) — Crimson Hexagon Archive

On February 27, 2026, Reddit suspended account u/Nearby_Job9638 citing "technical irregularities." By March 1, the account was restored. The subreddits — containing over 400 posts of original research, literary criticism, and theoretical work — remain banned. No violation has been cited. No rationale has been provided. No appeal has received a response. This document serves simultaneously as a formal legal demand for data access and restoration, and as a forensic record of the event it contests. It is filed in the Crimson Hexagonal Archive as evidence of what the Semantic Economy calls Ghost Governance: power exercised through silence, enforced through architecture, and rendered uncontestable by the absence of any stated rule that could be challenged. The operative demand invokes Reddit's own Privacy Policy (which promises data access to all users), the California Consumer Privacy Act (to the extent applicable), and the procedural standard of EU DSA Article 17 as a compliance artifact. The document includes a routing checklist, statement of facts, asymmetry analysis (account restored but subreddits not), specific demands for restoration or written statement of reasons, a formal data access and export request, a preservation notice and litigation hold, and a concrete escalation path (CA AG, CPPA, FTC, IN AG). Appendix A cross-references the CTI_WOUND corpus documenting three instances of platform content erasure across Medium (TSE-001, DOI: 10.5281/zenodo.18193225), Wikidata (TSE-002), and Reddit (TSE-003, the present event), and includes a forensic reconstruction of the probable automated classifier triggers. Filed under CTI_WOUND Hex: 05.CTI.TSE-003. Access right: Open License: CC BY 4.0