A fellow mod informed me that about it as I was laying in bed. Reddit sent a message to the mod team and after 1 hour demoded me. I didn’t even had time to see it, never-mind respond to it.
Looks like we rattled reddit enough to start shooting. There goes all that fancy talk about our protest not affecting them much.
Just FYI for now. It’s late here so I’ll see how we proceed tomorrow.
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A Mod on the F1 sub was saying that Reddit Admins are threatening any subs that are closed by saying that any mods who are opposed to re-opening subs will be demoted with them being replaced with mods who are willing to co-operate.
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The defendant must be a “provider or user” of an “interactive computer service”.
The cause of action asserted by the plaintiff must treat the defendant as the “publisher or speaker” of the harmful information at issue.
3. The information must be “provided by another information content provider”, i.e., the defendant must not be the “information content provider” of the harmful information at issue."
If Reddit the company is now picking and choosing who approves or blocks harmful information, are they an information content provider now? Are they liable if their chosen mods allow harmful content?
No, definitely not. The point of section 230 is to give websites the power to moderate themselves without being open to liability. IIRC previously, you had to choose between 0 moderation and no liability or moderation and liability, leading websites to either go for complete anarchy or extremely aggressive censorship.
Mods are posting all over the place saying “I have to bend over for the admins because if I don’t they’ll find someone else who will”.
You do you but honestly I find this a bit weird. As an unpaid volunteer you don’t have to do anything. Just resign. Reddit’s not about to die but it’s best days are in the past. I wouldn’t want to be a part of the future of reddit.
Make sure you remove any and all bots created, and delete all the custom work you did. Reddit can probably restore it, but it’ll take them time and effort to do so.
It’s fascinating that they would let the r/Piracy sub be forced back, you’d think that it would be in their interest to let it stay shut as long as possible and quietly close it.
r/piracy after the IPO: piracy is unethical as it is stealing from the poor (companies). This is a community to discuss how to stop piracy and become responsible and dutiful consumers.
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Lemmy it is, then.
Reopen with the new rules: All posts must relate to the golden age of piracy!
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It looks like the sub is now in restricted mode - is that the doing of the other members of the mod team or is admin trying to control outrage?
The second mod did it. They did not contact me at all so it seems they’re communicating with the admins
Ugh, this is so shitty! On multiple levels! I’m sorry. Guess we’re just being further proven correct in our decision to gtfo.
It’s honestly quite funny. I would have thought piracy is the one sub they wouldn’t care if it’s down.
Reddit: “open up so we can ban you!”
I think this calls for the subreddit to get
rm -rf /*'d so that reddit gets nothing.We should start posting link to pirated content, magnets and such just to push reddit into permanently close the subreddit.
They took our ship, so we’re gonna sink it.
Reddit proverbially taking their ball and going home lmao
A Mod on the F1 sub was saying that Reddit Admins are threatening any subs that are closed by saying that any mods who are opposed to re-opening subs will be demoted with them being replaced with mods who are willing to co-operate.
That’s big - “The bearings will continue until moral improves” -energy.
"In analyzing the availability of the immunity offered by Section 230, courts generally apply a three-prong test. A defendant must satisfy each of the three prongs to gain the benefit of the immunity:
3. The information must be “provided by another information content provider”, i.e., the defendant must not be the “information content provider” of the harmful information at issue."
If Reddit the company is now picking and choosing who approves or blocks harmful information, are they an information content provider now? Are they liable if their chosen mods allow harmful content?
No, definitely not. The point of section 230 is to give websites the power to moderate themselves without being open to liability. IIRC previously, you had to choose between 0 moderation and no liability or moderation and liability, leading websites to either go for complete anarchy or extremely aggressive censorship.
This is happening all over reddit.
Mods are posting all over the place saying “I have to bend over for the admins because if I don’t they’ll find someone else who will”.
You do you but honestly I find this a bit weird. As an unpaid volunteer you don’t have to do anything. Just resign. Reddit’s not about to die but it’s best days are in the past. I wouldn’t want to be a part of the future of reddit.
Make sure you remove any and all bots created, and delete all the custom work you did. Reddit can probably restore it, but it’ll take them time and effort to do so.
They can restore the bot accounts, sure, but they can’t restore the servers that run those bot accounts.
Lol, gtfo. Fuck that place anyway.
Its an industrial lockout so classically you either organize and strike even harder or burn down the capitalist pigs factory.
I’d be surprised if the subreddit survives the IPO anyways
It’s fascinating that they would let the r/Piracy sub be forced back, you’d think that it would be in their interest to let it stay shut as long as possible and quietly close it.
So, is that an order to abandon ship?
Well I guess its time to flood r/piracy with magnet links as soon as the new jannies open it.
why magnet links in particular?
I mean could be any link to copyright material but I generally grab magnet links so shrug
¯\_(ツ)_/¯
Also worth flooding them with
linksa map to where they can board the new ship where the 🏴☠️ flag still flies high.Not sure about the optics of Reddit force-reenabling a subreddit devoted to piracy LOL
r/piracy after the IPO: piracy is unethical as it is stealing from the poor (companies). This is a community to discuss how to stop piracy and become responsible and dutiful consumers.
Coming soon: rebranding /r/piracy to “pirate cosplay”
Nothing but pictures of John Oliver in maritime garb.
Is this the “sexy john oliver” thing people were talking about?