On Reddit, when the mods remove a thread, the direct link to the thread will still work. You can still comment and everything like normal. But the thread gets removed from all viewing options on the subreddit, so it won’t appear in hot/new/top, etc. Unless you have the direct link to that thread, it’s otherwise inaccessible.

It’s poorly written. The writer is all over the place. The article starts and ends with discussion about a video series from 2004 which is in no way related to the main story, the primary source is a paywalled article in Italian that we can only hope they’re translating accurately, the very first paragraph seems to suggest that there’s no proof to anything else specified in the rest of the article and immediately contradicts the headline… I feel like I learned nothing and wasted time by reading this.

ARE there actually honeypot sites being set up by Italian police? I don’t know, and apparently neither does the author.

It astounds me that people are expecting professionalism from somebody whose entire business is built around facilitating a crime. What are their other reviews like? “The staff at the underground dogfighting arena were so rude and have no customer service skills. 2/5, would not visit again.”

Because they’ve been so keen on being law-abiding do-gooders this whole time, right.