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How social media’s biggest user protest rocked Reddit (www.theguardian.com)
submitted 10 months ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]
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[–] [email protected] 57 points 10 months ago (2 children)

reposting the worst quote i heard all year - or perhaps all my life

“There’s a lot of stuff on the site that you’d only ever say in therapy, or AA, or never at all … But we don’t need to give all of that value to some of the largest companies in the world for free.”

fuck spez, fuck reddit

[–] [email protected] 20 points 10 months ago (1 children)

Yeah, he doesn't care about users privacy or well being, all he cares about is being the one to monetize users data.

I hate all silicon valley techbros in general, but spez is on another level. Reddit should never have brought him back on board after he sold the company. He's useless.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 10 months ago (1 children)

It isn't like Alexis Ohanian was any better.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 10 months ago

Oh, he's an idiot too. Reddit was better off without the pair of them. He was lucky enough to marry into wealth though, spez had a string of failed start ups before he slunk back to reddit. Now he wants to use it to get rich.

[–] [email protected] 14 points 10 months ago

“We don’t want other AI to train on this data, only one we’re involved with.”