Reddit communities with millions of followers plan to extend the blackout indefinitely

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Reddit communities with millions of followers plan to extend the blackout indefinitely
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Obvious tactic, paint the other side as violent and you'll get sympathy. Won't someone please think of the corporation.

Make no mistake, spez would love to see someone in a reddit tshirt beat up on the street. He'd be able to plaster that everywhere he could showing how sad his side is

A false flag is a typical right wing move. I can picture spez doing it. He should pick some kid name Aaron just to make it that much more spiteful.

I dislike u/spez as much as the next guy, but man, that's dark.

I mean there is a lot of money riding on this. I've seen people getting killed for 3 grand.

It's working, too. The Forbes article which I saw posted either here or on Kbin didn't even push back on Huffman's claim that traffic from LLMs was the reason for the price hike, and I haven't seen any big publication use the audio or transcripts showing a slam-dunk case of slander (or libel, whichever one applies to text) against the Apollo developer.

slander (or libel, whichever one applies to text)

Easy way to remember: Slander is Spoken. (They both start with S)

The problem with the libel/slander is unless it falls into a few categories of what's called per se defamation, you're required to prove damages. (From the libel's/slander's damage to your reputation, not from something like Reddit's API change destroying his business.)