Reddit will need to spend heavily on content moderation as it may face greater scrutiny as a public company, analysts said, threatening its longstanding policy of relying on an army of volunteers to maintain order on its platform.

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[–]RedditButt 2 insightful - 1 fun2 insightful - 0 fun3 insightful - 1 fun -  (3 children)

They won't. When they get overwhelmed, they just shadowban everyone and cherry-pick what comments they want to approve to make visible.

When they get tired of that, they just lock the thread.

[–]Brewdabier 2 insightful - 1 fun2 insightful - 0 fun3 insightful - 1 fun -  (1 child)

So business as usual then.

[–]RedditButt 1 insightful - 1 fun1 insightful - 0 fun2 insightful - 1 fun -  (0 children)

Yeah.... about that....

[–]Jiminy 1 insightful - 1 fun1 insightful - 0 fun2 insightful - 1 fun -  (0 children)

I think what this means is Reuters thinks they'll have to stop banning people and just censor instead. Cuz of inability to make money off someone who is banned so they never go to Reddit anymore. I doubt that. But twitter stopped banning when musk took over. Still censoring of course.