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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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[–] tias@discuss.tchncs.de 14 points 1 year ago

Yeah, you're probably right about the legal details of it. But what's written in legal texts doesn't necessarily align with what is morally acceptable. I interpret the article as an opinion piece about who has the moral high ground, and it certainly isn't Huffman. That guy has no moral compass.