Reddit has called moderators actions “malicious” and against the wishes of the community members. The numbers tell a different story. These are COMMUNITY protests and marking them otherwise is simply misinformation from reddit staff.
Don’t even get me started on the “It’s not ok to show people NSFW content when the don’t want to see it.” message that reddit has been sending out. The people clearly want this and even if they didn’t, REDDIT HAS A NWFW TOGGLE! As well as nswf blurring. No one who hasn’t flipped that toggle is seeing nsfw content.
Before the protest happened, most of the subs that I was on took a community vote about whether to take part in the protest and for how long.