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.

  • someguy3
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    1 year ago

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

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      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.