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    "sourceId": "R-005",
    "slug": "reddit-uwc-legal-lock-requests",
    "title": "UWC post locks and requests from Ubiquiti legal",
    "date": "2024-10-23",
    "captureDate": "2026-08-28",
    "category": "moderation",
    "classification": "documented",
    "summary": "In a locked r/Ubiquiti thread about Ubiquiti World Conference posts, moderator cpr0mpt-cmd says the team receives requests from Ubiquiti legal to lock material. The exchange directly documents a route through which company requests influenced decisions in a community described as unofficial.",
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      "The public Reddit page is marked as a locked post.",
      "A moderator account states: We get asked from UI legal to lock posts.",
      "The same public page describes r/Ubiquiti as an unofficial technical-support community.",
      "The exchange documents corporate influence over at least some moderation decisions."
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    "whatItDoesNotEstablish": [
      "It does not identify which moderator locked each underlying UWC post.",
      "It does not establish that Suddenly_Engineer performed or approved these specific actions.",
      "It does not establish that Ubiquiti controls every moderation decision or formally operates the subreddit.",
      "It does not resolve whether every attendee was bound by an enforceable NDA."
    ],
    "sourceUrl": "https://www.reddit.com/r/Ubiquiti/comments/1gajkh0/why_are_the_mods_locking_every_post_about_the_uwc/",
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        "imageAlt": "Continuation of the Reddit discussion showing the moderator denying hardware receipt and describing requests from legal and Robert Pera to remove posts",
        "caption": "Continuation of the supplied R-005 capture. The nested exchange preserves the moderator’s denial of receiving hardware and statements that legal and Robert Pera asked for material to be removed.",
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    "exactQuote": "We get asked from UI legal to lock posts.",
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