<story><title>Reddit&apos;s user uprising against China because Tencent will invest in the platform</title><url>https://china-underground.com/2019/02/09/reddit-is-experiencing-a-user-uprising-against-china-because-tencent-will-invest-heavily-in-the-platform/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>intopieces</author><text>&amp;gt;The CEO edited the post of a user because they criticized him or something. I can&amp;#x27;t believe how quickly that&amp;#x27;s been forgotten.&lt;p&gt;The CEO changed a single post from &amp;quot;fuck &amp;lt;his username&amp;gt;&amp;quot; to &amp;quot;fuck &amp;lt;username of the moderators of the specific sub-board&amp;gt;&amp;quot; for an hour. While certainly this action was not received well, the drama it caused is way overblown and isn&amp;#x27;t evidence of being &amp;#x27;plagued with censorship.&amp;#x27;&lt;p&gt;If anything it&amp;#x27;s plagued with shills from governments and corporations.</text></item><item><author>jumbopapa</author><text>Reddit has long been plagued with censorship. The CEO edited the post of a user because they criticized him or something. I can&amp;#x27;t believe how quickly that&amp;#x27;s been forgotten.&lt;p&gt;The Reddit situation reminds me of the post about failing to build a billion dollar company a few days ago. Reddit is trying to make VCs happy and continue to grow the business, but a platform like Reddit is best as a less reliant on growth, but stable platform. That allows the most ideas to be shared and the most natural interaction between users. I really think there is space for a competitor, but the switching costs will be high.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>save_ferris</author><text>It wasn&amp;#x27;t just censorship in the traditional sense, Huffman changed someone else&amp;#x27;s content that was posted. What an insane and unbelievably poor decision by the CEO of a major company.&lt;p&gt;Sure, the size of Huffman&amp;#x27;s change was small and limited in scope, but the injustice that it represented combined with the incredible lack of judgment by the Chief Executive rightfully rightfully caused a loud response.&lt;p&gt;He absolutely should&amp;#x27;ve been fired for it, or permanently lost DB access at a bare minimum.&lt;p&gt;&amp;gt; If anything it&amp;#x27;s plagued with shills from governments and corporations.&lt;p&gt;Again, accountability for that behavior ultimately rests on the executive team, no? If content generation or interaction, the core of Reddit&amp;#x27;s business, is being manipulated, who bears responsibility to correct it?</text></comment>
<story><title>Reddit&apos;s user uprising against China because Tencent will invest in the platform</title><url>https://china-underground.com/2019/02/09/reddit-is-experiencing-a-user-uprising-against-china-because-tencent-will-invest-heavily-in-the-platform/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>intopieces</author><text>&amp;gt;The CEO edited the post of a user because they criticized him or something. I can&amp;#x27;t believe how quickly that&amp;#x27;s been forgotten.&lt;p&gt;The CEO changed a single post from &amp;quot;fuck &amp;lt;his username&amp;gt;&amp;quot; to &amp;quot;fuck &amp;lt;username of the moderators of the specific sub-board&amp;gt;&amp;quot; for an hour. While certainly this action was not received well, the drama it caused is way overblown and isn&amp;#x27;t evidence of being &amp;#x27;plagued with censorship.&amp;#x27;&lt;p&gt;If anything it&amp;#x27;s plagued with shills from governments and corporations.</text></item><item><author>jumbopapa</author><text>Reddit has long been plagued with censorship. The CEO edited the post of a user because they criticized him or something. I can&amp;#x27;t believe how quickly that&amp;#x27;s been forgotten.&lt;p&gt;The Reddit situation reminds me of the post about failing to build a billion dollar company a few days ago. Reddit is trying to make VCs happy and continue to grow the business, but a platform like Reddit is best as a less reliant on growth, but stable platform. That allows the most ideas to be shared and the most natural interaction between users. I really think there is space for a competitor, but the switching costs will be high.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>m-p-3</author><text>It&amp;#x27;s the incident that we know of. How many times was this done in the past without oversight and without the generic public being aware? They can literally put words in your mouth without being able to disprove it.</text></comment>