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Reddit banned Paul McCartney over phone-free concert photos post in their subreddit (piunikaweb.com)
submitted 5 months ago* (last edited 5 months ago) by to c/technology@lemmy.world
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Paul McCartney’s official Reddit account seems to have been banned. The account, u/paulmccartney, had just dropped a set of photos and videos from the first night of his shows at the Fonda Theatre. It went straight into the r/PaulMcCartney subreddit. Then, not long after, the whole thing disappeared.

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[–] 23 points 5 months ago (5 children)

Kind of tangential to the topic but reddit has been appropriating user names for celebrities and companies. The first known instance (as far as I know) was u/borat. I was surprised thiskind of thing wasn't a bigger deal.

I wouldn't be surprised if u/paulmccartney is such a case. A basic name that's only a 5 year old account. No way nobody grabbed that before.

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  • [–] 31 points 5 months ago (3 children)

    But how would a fake Paul get access to the real Paul's private footage of his own, not-filmed-by-audience show?

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  • [–] 3 points 5 months ago (2 children)

    That's exactly how they getcha. It's the perfect con, you see!

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