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U/spez years, Reddit has been a platform where folks can discuss fan theories, u/spez, break down leaks, and even argue about who the a-hole is in a given situation.

By Jay Peters , a news editor who writes about technology, video games, and virtual worlds. Reddit is fighting for its soul. But here is a lightly edited transcript of the entire interview — which, at times, was contentious. My favorite analogy for Reddit is that of a city. I think Reddit is very much the same. Those democratic values run deep at Reddit.

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If that was the case, then any user being a mod on any particular sub at that time doesn't really mean much. Reddit comes back up. Zak 8 months ago parent next [—]. I remember the change to requiring people to accept an invite. Adding people as moderators of distasteful subreddits without their consent was a common form of abuse just prior. I mean it's also worth noting that spez was CEO of Reddit and subreddits like that were allowed to exist for many, many more years. And it would in turn be worth noting that the creators of reddit had a philosophical and political commitment to free speech that drove their light-touch approach to moderation. It's not like the existence of that subreddit is evidence of an endorsement on their part. Any CEO that has ever said this about a website they control is just pandering to the crowd. Musk's Twitter has complied with more government takedown requests than the previous regime had.

In your "ideas" phrasing the exceptions seem implicit rather than explicit by virtue u/spez not covering everything.

According to his comment, he did this for about an hour before stopping. He also says that he won't do it again, and that the community management team is angry with him. For a lot of users there, this validates some beliefs about the admin's treatment towards them, specifically that they make an active effort to censor their content. Other users on the site feel like this sets a dangerous precedent, as it demonstrates the admins can and have edited comments without disclosure. Further users feel like, while Spez made a mistake, he was unfairly treated and harassed by TheDonald and his response was an understandable outburst.

By Rich McCormick. Huffman admitted that he'd replaced his name with moderator names. Reddit, under Huffman's leadership, made the decision today to ban a subreddit that had sprung up to discuss "Pizzagate. Although stopping short of a direct apology to those he edited, Huffman did say he had overstepped his bounds. Reddit banned the 'Pizzagate' conspiracy subreddit. Reddit's CEOs have been no strangers to criticism from the users of their site, but even after years of insults, taunts, and threats from random people, events like today show that public figures aren't entirely armored against online attacks. While it can't have been much fun for Huffman to be the target of abuse from a subset of meme-hungry Trump supporters, the insults pale in comparison to the the outpouring of hatred previous CEO Ellen Pao faced from larger sections of the site last year. Skip to main content The Verge The Verge logo. The Verge homepage.

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By Jay Peters , a news editor who writes about technology, video games, and virtual worlds. Reddit is fighting for its soul. But here is a lightly edited transcript of the entire interview — which, at times, was contentious. My favorite analogy for Reddit is that of a city. I think Reddit is very much the same. Those democratic values run deep at Reddit.

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Dylan 8 months ago root parent next [—] That Giving a percent free subsidy to competitors is not a good business strategy. Freedom of speech limited to well composed political speech is not what it sounds. How free! Mithaldu on Nov 24, root parent prev next [—] Not only that, usually hate and stupid is born by different people, where the stupid ones are gullible and numerous but earnest, and the hateful ones are trolls pushing the stupid ones for their own purposes; and punishing one groups effectively is hard without affecting the other unduly. I have a list of stuff that was banned or censored in the past that would be considered unobjectionable by almost everyone today, and I suspect things would have been better if we had "freedom of expression" instead of "freedom of speech" or "free exchange of ideas", for that matter. You can prohibit all signs if you want, but specifically choosing what signs someone gets to display violates their first amendment rights and could trigger a fair housing lawsuit. It's asymmetric warfare; moderating a single troll costs about ten times the effort that troll puts in, and it scales geometrically from there. I don't think the shadowban is the most effective tool in this case, a slowban increasing page-load times usually works a lot better. This is ridiculous!!! This is the stupidest comment I have read. Mithaldu on Nov 24, root parent prev next [—] imo he's gained credibility. Later in , former Reddit CEO Ellen Pao accused him and other administrators for condoning racism and "[monetizing] white supremacy" on the platform. Steve built almost all of reddit in the beginning, and even now, seems to still be involved in the code. If it's controversial but somewhat on-topic, it's for the community to deal with.

In April , the discussion and news aggregation website Reddit announced its intentions to charge for its application programming interface API , a feature which had been free since , causing a dispute. The move forced multiple third-party applications to shut down and threatened accessibility applications and moderation tools. On May 31, Apollo developer Christian Selig stated that Reddit's pricing would force him to cease development on the app.

The highest of them is now ranked 13, instead of 2, 3, 4, and 5. Some good examples that still exists today are the Electronic Frontier Foundation and to some extent the American Civil Liberties Union. Is administrators editing users' posts as a norm of the internet something you would be comfortable with? To be fair, this Slack chat isn't reddit's internal company chat. Do you want to try and justify their inaction further or concede this point? It doesn't necessarily mean spez was specifically moderating that sub. April 19, Come on, regardless of how strongly you feel, you know what the rules are. Define the "limit". Archived from the original on February 16, May 3, As you noted, if you can't speak your ideas then you can't freely exchange them. Not true! What if some extremists came to power? It's no different then why I wouldn't store sensitive information only on Google Drive - Google has full control over it and could take it off on a whim if they really wanted.