They have done so already for a few subs where a few of the mods were willing to budge. In others, all mods were removed and the subs were made restricted.

Because for some piracy isn’t simply about being a cheapskate but also about activism

If people want to crawl back into Meta’s clutches I’m not going to stop them. Don’t give the one nice thing we have to a corporation that only wants to exploit us.

This is not exactly true.

It’s not that the votes don’t count, it’s that Reddit uses a particular technique where the karma you see is randomly modified every time to make it impossible to see if your vote has an effect.

The goal is to prevent bots from realizing when they have been shadow banned. It makes it easier to control automated vote manipulation since bots will just make a new account if they realize they’re banned.

What privacy? Everything here is it in the open for everyone to see

Think of it as a mailing list. There’s a bunch of people in it getting updates from others. Some use Gmail, others use outlook, others Yahoo, etc.

We need Accidental Renaissance here

They don’t want to deal with the legal implications of it. Spez has said ad nauseum that they don’t want to risk 3PA providing NSFW content to users that Reddit is not allowed to serve because they don’t want to be held responsible for that. Especially now that some US states are requiring actual ID verification for 18+ content.

While Spez is a lying weasel, I don’t doubt that Reddit is worried about NSFW-related lawsuits, bad press, and ad revenue impact.

And, the next step after having control of the content is to further restrict it.

Let’s assume that everyone who upvoted their option also downvoted the alternative.

The group A, has |A| number of individuals. Group B has |B| number.

Option A: |A| - |B|
Option B: |B| - |A|

Option A = |A| - |B| 
         = -(-(|A| - |B|))
         = -(|B| - |A|)
         = -Option B

The results would be opposites of each other and would highlight the opinion of the majority anyway.

That’s for redistribution rights. GDPR is for protection of personal information and applies regardless of their terms of service. Some US states have similar laws.

You can hit them with a GDPR request regardless of your place of residence. But, if they fail to comply, you can only escalate if you are in the EU.

Those were friendly exclamation marks. Not angry ones.