When people get "pushed hard enough" the usual thing is deleting comments and banning users. That's a known and accepted moderation power. Sure it's abused sometimes, but at least it's not lying and wrongly attributing negative comments to people.
Invisibly editing comments is a very unexpected route to take. I doubt you could push most CEOs to that. They would just delete the comment.
Re:Deleting the golang subreddit
by stcredzero on Friday November 25, 2016 @05:33PM
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That's a known and accepted moderation power. Sure it's abused sometimes...
That you'd say this is an indication of how far the culture online has fallen. What's now taken as an accepted use of moderation power was once considered abusive.
These other sites have demonstrated trustworthiness, as has Reddit up until this.
We all know that site operators can change things, but some of them have enough integrity to be trusted not to.
If that possibility is too much of a concern, maybe we need to come up with an alternative - like some kind of decentralised, mass-distributed reddit-like. Actually, wasn't that usenet? Is it too late to get that back?