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Reddit Ramps Up Its Threats To Protesting Mods, As Ad Buyers Leave (www.techdirt.com)
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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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[–] [email protected] 39 points 2 years ago (4 children)

why did it have to be aaron swartz

why couldn't it have been huffman...

[–] c0c0c0 18 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago) (1 children)

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.

[–] masquenox 6 points 2 years ago

" A policeman beats up a protestor and we think "what an awful person," not "what terrible training."

Yeah... that aged like milk.

[–] pfannkuchen 14 points 2 years ago

Good people do good things and get punished by bad people.

Bad people do bad things and get rewarded.

[–] Orbitrix 9 points 2 years ago

oof. Kinda dark and morbid. But I get it.

[–] [email protected] 0 points 2 years ago

Conspiracy theory time. Huffman murdered Aaron and made it look like a suicide because he didn't want Reddit to sell out.