Bowen

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[–] Bowen 60 points 1 year ago (4 children)

When people add you as a mod, you can still leave. He never did. That subreddit in particular was known to have the blessing of the reddit admins to operate and eventually made 'subreddit of the month'. Then a news org picked up that reddit was hosting this content and then they shut it down.

They were well aware of what was going on. Andrewsmith is right, there is some plausible deniability there, but with the everything else we know about Steve Huffman, I'm not so sure I can agree with his assessment that it was forced upon him.

[–] Bowen 13 points 1 year ago

They've gotta reclaim all that lost valuation for their IPO somehow!

[–] Bowen 10 points 1 year ago

You'd have a hard time convincing me he's not. Twitter was an absolutely fantastic way to organize politically. Imagine if you had enough money to casually drop out of your nation's treasury to end it and could squash a lot of political dissidents by doing so. I'm sure he's got a slush fund to end it from some not so great despots.

[–] Bowen 31 points 1 year ago (2 children)

The irony is reddit was that alternative to Digg.

You'd think Huffman would have the wherewithal to realize that no king rules forever.

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