As with many other subreddits, /r/LegalAdviceUK (which had been dark since the start of the blackout) has been sent a thinly-veiled threat by Reddit.

So they’ve reopened in order to start moving the entire community of 810,000 subscribers to somewhere else.

As you can imagine there are a number of legal professionals who moderate that sub, and they really don’t take kindly to being threatened. They sign off their reopening message with “Fuck /u/Spez and long live John Oliver.” but for the real fun you might want to look up a very famous British legal case they reference, Arkell v Pressdram 1971.

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    1 year ago

    There is that aspect concerning spez’s defamatory public remarks against the Apollo dev. I’m sure they can work that angle if Christian was inclined to do so. But I also don’t think he will, unless Steve unwisely makes another non-PR/lawyer cleared statement.