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Re:German Interior Ministry shuts down Linksunten.indymedia.org by tallanvor on Friday August 25, 2017 @08:49AM (#15098034)
I wouldn't recommend borrowing this, because there's only two items in the list which would never include a comma before the conjunction. The Oxford comma is used in lists of 3 or more items.

Also, it seems the person who posted this modified the title for some reason. The actual article title is "German Interior Ministry shuts down, raids left-wing German Indymedia site". We can probably agree that this title isn't great either, but it's far better than the hatchet job the poster did.

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Re:German Interior Ministry shuts down Linksunten.indymedia.org by wongarsu on Friday August 25, 2017 @10:05AM (#15098495)
That's why I said misuse :)

If you extend the list to three items, an oxford comma actually helps with understanding the sentence: "German Interior Ministry shuts down, brings charges against and raids Linksunten.indymedia.org" vs "German Interior Ministry shuts down, brings charges against, and raids Linksunten.indymedia.org". But in general it's just a really bad sentence no matter how many commas there are.

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