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The Verge: Reddit starts removing moderators behind the latest protests

The Verge: Some subreddits are now filled with porn to protest Reddit

Gizmodo: John Oliver Is the New Face of the Reddit API Protest

They dug the Beehaw vibe 🐝

Wired: The Reddit Blackout Is Breaking Reddit

The admins seem to be crushing it so far. Go admins! You can do it! 🦸🏽‍♀️

I love seeing people around the internet mentioning Lemmy and other fediverse spaces. It’s so validating and exciting 🙂

Techdirt: Reddit CEO Triples Down, Insults Protesters, Whines About Not Making Enough Money From Reddit Users

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I wasn’t a fan

When I was 14 my parents told me that if I didn’t work on the family farm in Oklahoma they would cut off my water. So I did. That’s legal. Seems like a problem to me.

In February, the Labor Department announced that it had found more than a hundred children between the ages of thirteen and seventeen working in meatpacking plants and slaughterhouses, in eight states, for Packers Sanitation Services, one of the nation’s largest food-sanitation companies.

Thirteen year old children working in meatpacking plants seems like a problem.