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> The admins have very little direct impact on it outside of the standard enforcement of spam blocking and illegal content.

/r/fatpeoplehate and /r/incels are admin-banned subs that weren't spam or illegal.

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I like how you interpreted "very little" as none, thanks. Nothing of any value was lost anyways as both of those subs were shitty toxic places. And I am pretty sure they were banned for their mods supporting the subs being used to harass people, which violates TOS.

Another example is the reddit admins shutting down any subreddit that allows for discussion about digital rights managment. One prime example of this is r/printsf. If you try to discuss how to get your Amazon purchased ebook in a format that can be used with text to speech the local mods of the sub will ban you. This is because if they allow it the reddit admins will ban the sub.

It isn't all direct reddit admin/corporate action. They put the onus on the subs to do their dirty work and enforce the corporate rules to protect their income and interests.

So their effect is not little; it's at least as broad as illegal, spam, harassment, toxic, TOS violation.

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