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View submission: The history of the /r/xkcd kerfuffle.
It doesn't have to be a company though. Maybe Randall Munroe has a secret blood feud with The Oatmeal so he censors links to it.
Maybe Arnold Schwarzenegger is a scientologist and gets the mods to promote it on /r/ArnoldSchwarzenegger
I rather doubt that pictures of Barbra Streisand's house would have made it onto /r/BarbraStreisand
There are many, many different ways that an individual may abuse the system. Of course, a regular mod can do this too, as we have very clearly seen in your example. But if anything I'd guess that the IP owners are more likely to engage in such things, not less (especially in Streisand's case)
Comment by Wyboth at 09/02/2014 at 00:11 UTC
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I see the potential for abuse. I disagree about the intellectual property owners engaging in censorship more, but I guess we'll have to agree to disagree about that. I don't know of any rule-based system that would have no potential for abuse. I wish "use common sense" could be a rule.