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Re:Can Steve Huffman Save Reddit from Itself? by 36erhefg on Wednesday October 07, 2015 @04:53AM (#10344890)
Speaking of voting. I cannot find any terms of service for hacker news when you create an account. Can our information legally sold to advertisers?
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Re:Can Steve Huffman Save Reddit from Itself? by icebraining on Wednesday October 07, 2015 @05:12AM (#10344951)
IANAL, but I'd say they can't sell the comments - they're copyrighted, and since they don't ask for an explicit license, the implied one is probably limited to displaying them on the site - but they could sell the votes/flags/karma information.
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Re:Can Steve Huffman Save Reddit from Itself? by tdylan on Wednesday October 07, 2015 @05:29AM (#10344994)
YC has little (to nothing) to gain by selling HN info, but everything to lose.
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