Re:Reddit.com appears to be having an outage
by nicolas_t on Monday June 12, 2023 @12:01PM
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What was the Sears debacle?
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Re:Reddit.com appears to be having an outage
by paradox460 on Monday June 12, 2023 @02:38PM
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Sears had an XSS injection issue, where you could change their breadcrumbs by manipulating the URLs. Some redditors changed and shared a link to a grill as a "Body part roaster" and had fun. Sears found out and got mad
https://www.techdirt.com/2009/08/21/reddit-sears-grills-that...
https://old.reddit.com/r/AskReddit/comments/9clji/where_did_...
reddit used to be owned by Conde Nast. Sears got upset about a post and complained to Conde Nast, who then told spez to take it down. If you have a political commitment to 'free speech' that folds if you might have to face some consequences for defending it, you don't have that strong of a commitment in my opinion. Certainly not strong enough to justify hosting a community of child predators