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> Other subreddits start going private in solidarity. This spreads until over 100 have shut down, pledging a 24 hour blackout. I think the petition starts aroun
by magicalist 11y ago
> Other subreddits start going private in solidarity. This spreads until over 100 have shut down, pledging a 24 hour blackout. I think the petition starts around this time.
Just a small correction. The petition was made in response to the shut down of fatpeoplehate and others.
- rory096 11y agoGotcha, more of a resurfacing then. I'll change it to this, which I sort of left out: Lots of pure speculation that Victoria was fired because Jesse Jackson's AMA the previous day went poorly, or maybe because the reddit administration wanted to ruin IAmA somehow. No hard facts.