Reddit Ramps Up Its Threats To Protesting Mods, As Ad Buyers Leave
Reddit Ramps Up Its Threats To Protesting Mods, As Ad Buyers Leave
The landed gentry are only in charge until the king comes to town and chops off a few heads. At least that seems to be the case at Reddit, where CEO Steve Huffman pretended his complaints about cur…
The landed gentry are only in charge until the king comes to town and chops off a few heads. At least that seems to be the case at Reddit, where CEO Steve Huffman pretended his complaints about current moderators — who were protesting his decision to effectively cut off API access to tons of useful…
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why did it have to be aaron swartz
why couldn't it have been huffman...
I have an article Aaron wrote about the Freemont GM plant business case that I read every few months to remind me of the point he was making. And every time I read it, I am reminded of the ridiculous sequence of events that took him away. Sometimes, it really does seem like only the good die young.
" A policeman beats up a protestor and we think "what an awful person," not "what terrible training."
Yeah... that aged like milk.
Good people do good things and get punished by bad people.
Bad people do bad things and get rewarded.
oof. Kinda dark and morbid. But I get it.
Conspiracy theory time. Huffman murdered Aaron and made it look like a suicide because he didn't want Reddit to sell out.