• BlueBockser@programming.dev
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    2 years ago

    But as the text says, this extortion began 5 days before the API changes were even announced. These criminals don’t give a f*ck about the API and threaten to leak the data of those same users they’re claiming to protect.

    I think we should just ignore this, because it’s a distraction for public pressure and will only make Reddit look better - either by delegitimising the protest or by making them look like a victim instead of the perpetrator they are.

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        I’m going to say what you did, more diplomatically:

        While I don’t condone extortion via hacking or any other means, I acknowledge that Reddit and its’ dysfunctional, incompetent corporate culture - with Huffman at the top - brought this development upon themselves.

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        But when that spanking both threatens the very users they’re claiming to fight for, and threatens to delegitimise all of those user’s and moderator’s protest efforts by giving Reddit a victimhood, I think it is downright stupid to cheer that on