I would honestly love to see that. It would make their situation so much worse. They rely on people moderating subs voluntarily. They don't have the manpower to do it themselves. The subs would probably get flooded with spam and NSFW content. And if there's one thing advertisers hate more than the current blackout, it's their ads being displayed between questionable porn.

So if reddit really did this, I wouldn't count it as a loss for the protesters. Instead, I would go get some popcorn.

All according to plan, I fear. They’d ideally have all subreddits under the management of their cadre of “power mods”

I think for every forced takeover he'll get 100 more subs going dark in protest.

If they do people should just post fucked up shit unmoderated

Negative one day. They've already started.