Five gets you ten that Reddit will purge the moderators, get lackeys into the mod positions, do a content prune to get rid of NSFW-ish posts and comments, then try to bring it back as “business as usual”.
Reddit has already demonstrated that they have no problem breaking their own rules.
That’s… that’s kind of the point.
What’s happening is that the Reddit CEO is cannibalizing the community aspect of the site in pursuit of profit, and he keeps doubling down.
Various subreddits opted to go dark.
Reddit said to the moderators of those subreddits “open back up or we’ll replace you with someone who will”
Cue mods reopening with new rules. In the overwhelming majority of the wakes I’ve seen, these rules changes were ratified by community vote.
The whole thing reminds me of the end of Little House on the Prairie. A robber Baron decided that the entire town belongs to him as he technically held the deed for the land. Rather then accept his draconian rule, the people of the town jointly and severally blew up every building in the town and went elsewhere.
The robber Baron was pissed, but couldn’t do anything about it: the land may have been his, but the town they had built was theirs.
Edit: in regards to the John Oliver pictures: https://lemmy.dbzer0.com/post/35819
Yes it was. I think you’re getting down voted because people are considering private property with personal property.
Your stuff that’s there so you can live your life? Personal property.
Stuff that’s held from the common but isn’t for the purpose of someone living their life? That’s private property.