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What risk? They take away the mod position you didn't really want in the first place?
The risk is that they start suing users that act malicious, and this can't be seen as malicious just incompetent.
Edit: I don't see users doing nothing as malicious. I'm talking about the one's breaking stuff being sued.
Suing unpaid volunteers for not working hard enough? Not a lawyer, but surely you can't ~use~ sue an employee for not working hard enough. Just do a really poor job, don't moderate well. What are they going to argue?
No they will sue the malicious ones not the ones doing nothing.
A lawsuit requires them to be breaking a law. Doing a shit or even malicious job at something you volunteered for is not against the law. Mods are not employees of reddit. If the argument is that they're somehow harming the product, that same argument could be extended to the protestors and shitposters. It wouldn't hold any water in an actual court.
Good for the protesters then, one thing less to worry about.
I don't think anyone ever was lol. If reddit even tried something like that they'd be opening a legal can of worms that would cause them way more harm than good
sue em back if thats the way the wanna play it i think its high time we got the aclu involved if they seem to think their content is theirs--- is an image microsofts etc cuz you used one of their programs to draw it? id say it falls more on the previous mods etc is the way to argue this in court now that i think about it why arent people trying to sue reddit more for billions? futhermore i think they are hiding stuff on their end to investors i think its time the sec got wind of this im a counterpuncher and i dont stop until the enemy is doa thats my mentality
Not a bad idea, it requires some organisation and money, it could be done, I'm not sure about this having a legal foot to stand on but someone will know.
If you’re talking about suing Reddit for copyright/intellectual property law infringement, unfortunately, that’s unlikely to happen. Reddit can claim certain rights over user content because it’s not against the law to sign over those rights through a user agreement. It’s a bad idea, but it is likely to be considered legally binding. The “right to be forgotten” under GDPR is a specific form of control of content that can’t be signed away, but it’s not about copyright.
How could they possibly sue moderators? They're all anonymous
That depends on how much each person has protected themselves, in their Reddit account if they use their primary email and have linked Facebook or stuff like that.
This is true.
Oh yeah. That will go over great
Yeah talk about dumpster fire if they start on that.