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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.
Comment by 4_bit_forever at 09/06/2023 at 18:36 UTC
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3 days though? A Monday through a Wednesday? That is not a strike. A strike is stopping all traffic UNTIL the demands are met. This is a demonstration; a demonstration which will accomplish nothing.