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The moderators of Philly’s largest subreddit wanted to protest a new policy. Then I-95 collapsed.

R/Philadelphia is home to 449,000 users who rely on it for news. When the subreddit went dark to protest a change to Reddit's API policy, posters lashed out at the forum's unpaid moderators.

The subreddit r/Philadelphia was offline during the I-95 collapse.
The subreddit r/Philadelphia was offline during the I-95 collapse.Read moreSteve Madden
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