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[–] Reow 0 points 1 point (+1|-0) ago 

The average person working for Reddit either wouldn't care enough to do anything, or would be too afraid of rocking the boat. If anyone official is going to do anything, it will come from senior management. They are part of a very large company worth a lot of money - other issues aside, even Pao is not stupid enough to do anything that could drag Reddit into disrepute with the broader community. By all means they may pressure infrastructure providers to take Voat down etc, but they're not going to be linked to a DDOS or hack. Amongst everything else, they don't want to leave themselves open to litigation. Those sort of attacks will come from the self-organising grassroots supporters.

What Reddit is most likely to do is launch legal action against Voat, against its owner, against its administrators, etc. Reddit has deep pockets and they would be well aware that Voat doesn't - their goal will be to cripple them financially. In this regard, unless one of you is a high-powered international lawyer, or some other organisation comes to our rescue, Voat's probably fucked. If Voat survived this and became large enough, and Reddit still cared, they may attempt to go after strategic resources that Voat uses (i.e. acquire any companies Voat relies on). I don't know Atko, so no disrespect intended, but maybe there's a price where he'd sell Voat.

As for defences, maybe we can make friends with some other larger organisations that stand for freedom. I'm not saying these ones in particular, but examples include TBP and WikiLeaks - they're certain to already have lawyers who may help us out if Reddit attacks via that route. If we can get large enough, we need to set up strategic partnerships with for-profit entities - that way, if done correctly, if Reddit comes after us, it will be in their financial best interest to defend us.

We should also be mindful that someone working for Reddit is likely reading the front page of Voat on a regular basis. I'd suggest IP banning them, but they'd just use a proxy or use one of their phones, so that would be an exercise in futility.