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Reddit CEO slams protesters, says he'll change site rules (www.nbcnews.com)

submitted 1 year ago by SocialSpirit@fedia.io to c/fedia@fedia.io

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Steve Huffman, the Reddit CEO, told NBC News in an interview that a user protest on the site this week is led by a minority of moderators and doesn’t have wide support.

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[–] Zigzagged4044@fedia.io 17 points 1 year ago (2 children)

To be honest, I didn't expect the Reddit CEO to get this defensive about the decision. It seems like with each move he's just putting more gas on the fire. He probably should have just stayed quite and let the inconvenience of the blackout make the Reddit community shift their anger to the mods to finally open up again.

[–] SocialSpirit@fedia.io 1 points 1 year ago

@Zigzagged4044
You are so right. He couldn’t have made it any worse if he’d just stayed quiet.

[–] GhostOnTheHalfShell@fedia.io 1 points 1 year ago

The assumption here is the CEO is unusually smart