Quite the shitstorm over on reddit today. Seems that reddit CEO Steve Huffman (/u/spez) edited user comments in /r/The_Donald (changing their database directly) because he was having a little conniption fit. Thing is, what he did now offers direct evidence that anything posted on reddit can be altered at a later date by reddit admins and therefore nothing posted there can be used as evidence in a legal proceeding. People have lost their jobs, have gotten into major legal trouble, etc when they get doxxed by reddit due to some legal authority requesting reddit give them their IP logs and user information. But now? A real problem now. A concerned moderator leaked the moderator chat log where they were discussing the ramifications of this and how they are going to "deal" with The_Donald (TD), and a lot of them just want to ban it outright. They are terrified of the power and reach that subreddit has, they hate it when it makes it to the front page of reddit even though they have changed their algorithms to make it difficult for popular posts on TD to reach the front page.
Highly entertaining stuff. I think they are just a few days from banning us all. They are talking even stripping all our comments out from their database, removing everything. Incredible.
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