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What is that supposed to accomplish?
Comment by ADefiniteDescription at 09/06/2023 at 04:48 UTC
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Protests often have a communicative or expressive function, which is meant to signal displeasure. In addition to that communicative function, a blackout of this size (not /r/philosophy by itself but all of the subreddits combined) poses a fairly decent threat to reddit's traffic and thus ad sales for the blackout period. It's effectively the online version of a strike.