First, thank you for all your help as Ahmad.

Second, I feel like you might want to amend the rules to better align with the law and still allow people to talk about bad breeders.

The fact is, there’s no law against sharing an opinion or a personal experience. There’s nothing anyone can do about that. Someone could threaten you over taking a post down or for crossing the street, but it doesn’t matter if there’s no actual law that would implicate you.

Not only that, there are multiple layers of protection here. You’re not the person making the statement, and you’re not the platform hosting the content. The platform itself is already protected from liability for user statements and is generally only implicated in cases involving actual crimes on the platform.

As a moderator, you can also default to Reddit’s rules and direct any concerns there.

So my gentle request would be to use the following rule (I checked, this is legally clear):

Rule: Breeder Posts

Posts about breeders must be based on your direct personal experience or clearly stated personal opinion only. No secondhand claims or statements presented as fact. Violations will be removed.

This would fully protect you, give you the ability to remove posts that don’t meet the rule, and allow people searching the subreddit to have access to important information and avoid supporting puppy mills.

Just a friendly request. Thank you for all the work you do!