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[The Guardian] There is no moral high ground for Reddit as it seeks to capitalise on user data (www.theguardian.com)

submitted 1 year ago by dimspace to c/lemmyworld

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CEO Steve Huffman says tech giants should not be able to trawl Reddit’s huge store of data for free. But that information came from users, not the company

That “corpus of data” is the content posted by millions of Reddit users over the decades. It is a fascinating and valuable record of what they were thinking and obsessing about. Not the tiniest fraction of it was created by Huffman, his fellow executives or shareholders. It can only be seen as belonging to them because of whatever skewed “consent” agreement its credulous users felt obliged to click on before they could use the service.

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[–] lucidinferno 28 points 1 year ago (2 children)

How are they evil? After doing a google search to see how they perform as a news organization, I’m genuinely curious about your viewpoint.

[–] perviouslyiner 22 points 1 year ago (1 children)

One of the few not owned by a rich proprietor, iirc?

[–] lucidinferno 9 points 1 year ago (2 children)

This is what I noticed as well. Someone correct me if I’m wrong, but they seem to have the appearance of being as unbiased as NPR, AP, or BBC.

[–] dimspace 17 points 1 year ago

They are essentially liberal, if a little left sided of centre, but I think they are the only UK newspaper that does not publicly support any political parties.

[–] [email protected] -5 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Someone correct me if I’m wrong, but they seem to have the appearance of being as unbiased as NPR, AP, or BBC.

I would not say that NPR has the appearance of being unbiased. I think everyone I know considers it mild- to moderately-biased on the liberal side.

[–] lucidinferno 6 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Interesting. If it’s not too personal, do the majority of people you know lean left or right?

[–] [email protected] 0 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

I think most the people who I know either lean liberal or libertarian, with a few right leans.

[–] DulyNoted 15 points 1 year ago

It's a classic right wing talking point. They like to present the Guardian as biased and bullshit as the Daily Mail or the Mirror or something.