If you read the actual Hacker News thread, they were getting a 5sec delay with wget, but not curl.

Don’t remember the details, but it could have been a bug in twitter’s code (i.e. not malicious). But we’ll probably not know the truth because Elon does not reply to media enquiries, and tech journalists love a juicy story.

China to allow every US based social network when?

Oh who am I kidding.

Ok I’ll ask. What am I missing here?

If your money, reputation, family, friends, career, etc it’s on the line, I can understand how people would fold under pressure.

You’d literally be walking away from someone who doesn’t respect you, and then asks you to work for free.

How spineless do you have to be?

If there are mods here who are willing to work towards reopening this community, we are willing to work with you to process a Top Mod Removal request or reorder the mod team to achieve this goal if mods higher up the list are hindering reopening.

Translation: please snitch and we’ll give you control of the subreddit. We don’t have enough staff to moderate all the subreddits ourselves.