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Re:New York Times' Reddit Piece Shows Dangers of Internet Jo... by magicalist on Saturday July 11, 2015 @08:44PM (#9872125)
> Other subreddits start going private in solidarity. This spreads until over 100 have shut down, pledging a 24 hour blackout. I think the petition starts around this time.

Just a small correction. The petition was made in response to the shut down of fatpeoplehate and others.

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Re:New York Times' Reddit Piece Shows Dangers of Internet Jo... by rory096 on Saturday July 11, 2015 @09:02PM (#9872174)
Gotcha, more of a resurfacing then. I'll change it to this, which I sort of left out:

Lots of pure speculation that Victoria was fired because Jesse Jackson's AMA the previous day went poorly, or maybe because the reddit administration wanted to ruin IAmA somehow. No hard facts.

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