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There is no moral high ground for Reddit as it seeks to capitalise on user data | John Naughton (www.theguardian.com)
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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

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[–] Harry@kbin.social 7 points 1 year ago

That is pretty much the gist of it. Reddit profited off the free labor of its users. Now they are disrespecting them. That is not going to end well.