Reddit’s April Fools’ experiment

Re:Reddit’s April Fools’ experiment by monksy on Tuesday April 04, 2017 @11:52AM (#14033980)

If it's anything it would be the moderators of r/Place. The admin's job is more of administration level (sitewide), and it's more of picking up where the mod privileges end.

There are subs where swastikas are allowed.

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Re:Reddit’s April Fools’ experiment by joshuamorton on Tuesday April 04, 2017 @12:09PM (#14034203)

The moderators of place are the admins, since it was an official reddit function ;)

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Re:Reddit’s April Fools’ experiment by monksy on Tuesday April 04, 2017 @01:00PM (#14034844)

Right, but theres a difference between a suspension/sidewide ban and a ban in a sub. One can be done by the admins while the other is done by the mods on a subreddit level.

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Re:Reddit’s April Fools’ experiment by grkvlt on Tuesday April 04, 2017 @12:24PM (#14034397)

I wonder, are these subs blocked for users from e.g. Germany and Austria, where the swastika is still banned?

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Re:Reddit’s April Fools’ experiment by monksy on Tuesday April 04, 2017 @12:59PM (#14034834)

I would hope not. Bans on speech and expression don't work. Besides Reddit isn't based in Germany or France.

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Re:Reddit’s April Fools’ experiment by pbhjpbhj on Tuesday April 04, 2017 @07:43PM (#14038338)

Reddit is provided by the owners to people in Germany, say. You can't ship goods/services to Germany bearing swastikas, AIUI, under their law. If Reddit sell to Germany (eg Reddit Gold) then they likely broke the law. /IANAL

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Re:Reddit’s April Fools’ experiment by danielbln on Wednesday April 05, 2017 @04:15AM (#14040560)

The only sub that returns a 421 ("Unavailable For Legal Reasons") here in Germany is r/watchpeopledie, as can be seen in Reddit's latest transparency report.

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