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/r/LegalAdviceUK is forced back open, vows to move the entire community off Reddit (www.reddit.com)
submitted 1 year ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]
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As with many other subreddits, /r/LegalAdviceUK (which had been dark since the start of the blackout) has been sent a thinly-veiled threat by Reddit.

So they've reopened in order to start moving the entire community of 810,000 subscribers to somewhere else.

As you can imagine there are a number of legal professionals who moderate that sub, and they really don't take kindly to being threatened. They sign off their reopening message with "Fuck /u/Spez and long live John Oliver." but for the real fun you might want to look up a very famous British legal case they reference, Arkell v Pressdram 1971.

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[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 year ago (1 children)

The mods there are actual legal professionals. Would be interesting to see them stay closed and force reddit to act on the veiled threat. What mods would replace them?

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago (1 children)

This won't go to a legal battle. Reddit will just boot them as mods, then ask the community for new ones.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago

I didn't mean to imply that they'd sue. I meant what other busy legal professionals will step up? And how shit would it be if they just get some schmucks who are only armchair lawyers.