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Technically, sure.

But, usually a company of this size/scale puts in place restrictions so that accessing privileged abilities like this is extremely difficult and requires authorizations / clearances / permissions from users, etc.

Generally big / public tech company employees are not even allowed to LOOK at PII or the data of a specific user name etc. You run all tests on staging / fake populated DBs only, etc.




Reddit's not that large, and the admin in question is the CEO.


Reddit is one of the largest and most influential community websites on the Internet (#25-29ish).


Large in terms of company size, not in terms of internet reach.


One of the largest, sure. How are you measuring "most influential"?


So's 4chan...


CEOs don't get to break the rules just because. These kinds of restrictions exist to protect consumers (and their data) and the business legally from liability, etc.


Yes, yes they do.




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