Exactly, they’ve only decided to cut off peaceful and legal protest, they don’t get a say though in non-legal or non-peaceful protests, especially involving cyber attacks against them.

reposted because SJW (fitting name) deleted all my old ones.

Peaceful protest, non peaceful or non legal protest is allowed only on the merit people decide to do it, regardless of what kind of mind games they try and use to stop it. If this happened once, it can happen again, just in different ways.

Sh.itjustworks deleted my comments so I’m reposting them.

Hopefully he won’t, Reddit may seem more powerful in this scenario, but they aren’t invulnerable to threats or attacks. Hopefully enough angry people decide to do what’s necessary when the time comes.

I’d say that’s a kinda a stretch, peaceful protests maybe, but peaceful and legal protests aren’t the only type of protest as anyone who knows their history would be aware of. Violent and illegal protests are very much still possible even under this change, and they can very much hurt Reddit depending on how far they go.

Events like this could be considered a type of protest in the future, and while this one didn’t do very much damage, ones which are more extreme very well could.

This shouldn’t be surprising, do cyber companies think they are immune to the nasty kind of protest just because they can put artificial limits on the peaceful kind? Violent protest has happened all through history, it will no doubt continue into the cyber age, and it may get a whole lot uglier than just a few broken windows or a few cuts and scrapes.