as a mod who did a poll, the community was in favour of going dark. this means only mods can view the content. no one else. why? well does reddit have any term

as a mod who did a poll, the community was in favour of going dark. this means only mods can view the content. no one else. why? well does reddit have any terms and conditions imposed on moderators that they cannot indefinitely take sub that they moderate for free on behalf of reddit who technically has to employ people to do this job? its a simple equation really, we (mods) do the dirty job for free, users populate the subreddits with content and comments for free, reddit gets to keep income from "awards" as a payment for keeping the whole thing up. how does "robbing reddit" come into this? the often thrown around phrase is "reddit owns rights to all content", well if i post a link to a funny news on NYT, does..... reddit get to keep the ownership of that link because i, a third party posted that link on reddit, if that's the case then what happened to rights of NYT? same for comments, if i wrote a comment myself, i will ultimately own all rights and liabilities arising out of that comment, if reddit wants to take "ownership rights" of my comment, they better be ready to face liabilities as well when slander a popular buffoon on reddit? is that how its going to be?