Steve Huffman, the CEO of Reddit, has decided to just keep on talking. After his disastrous AMA helped inspire more subreddits to join a 48 hour blackout, and his dismissal of the protesting subred…

They’ll probably just use it anyway, unfortunately.

Now that we’ve given them the data, there’s not much we can do.

@laird_dave@feddit.de
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If you’re in the EU have a look at Art 15&17 GDPR. I’m so gonna have fun with them…

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I tried nuking mine and they restored everything. At least I have the power not to give them anything more.

me as well - it’s all back.

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I keep running Power Delete Suite and the comments keep getting restored. Pretty shifty of them.

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Is shreddit working to do a mass edit? That is what I am thinking of doing.

Maybe try to replace everything with various lengths of ipsum dolor to try to fool whatever detection reddit is using. Over a period of a few days too.

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