Moderator of r/Pics remove picture of Aaron Swartz in post celebrating Free Speech and his memory. Reddit is erasing him.

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[–]at_finn 7 insightful - 2 fun7 insightful - 1 fun8 insightful - 2 fun -  (5 children)

Free speech and modern reddit have nothing in common.

[–][deleted] 3 insightful - 3 fun3 insightful - 2 fun4 insightful - 3 fun -  (2 children)

What do you expect when China poured money into it? That $150M investment looks to be paying off for the CCP.

[–]redditbegay 1 insightful - 2 fun1 insightful - 1 fun2 insightful - 2 fun -  (0 children)

I heard that the 75m was enough for spez's partner to get a ball reduction surgery for his wife.

[–]lawuigi 1 insightful - 1 fun1 insightful - 0 fun2 insightful - 1 fun -  (1 child)

Reddit was never about free speech. The TL;DR to Reddit is that it's was an idea spoon-fed to a couple of dude-bros that wanted to get rich in startups. Aaron was brought in through acquisition to work on the site to get it stable enough to sell off. The site was sold to Conde Nast in 2006. Everyone expected Aaron to sell his shares too, especially Conde Nast. But he didn't so Conde Nast made his life hell until he left/fired (details are sparse and murky). Conde Nast built the site into what you knew and loved back then then. The dude-bros that were gone for five years showed back up to 'run' the company and then Conde sold to Tencent.

Reddit was an attempt to get rich. It worked for Steve, Alex, and Paul. It becoming an interesting place on the internet for a short time was a side effect/accident.

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and then Conde sold to Tencent.

Not sold. Tencent has a 5% interest. Let's be perfectly clear here. It's not about China. It was never about China. Reddit is still by and large owned by Jewish billionaire Donald Newhouse (owner of Conde Nast and Advance Publications).