Can Steve Huffman Save Reddit from Itself?

Re:Can Steve Huffman Save Reddit from Itself? by cronjobber on Wednesday October 07, 2015 @05:48AM (#10345042)

As far as I understand the reddit situation, a major problem is that advertisers have a strong fear of screenshots of their product next to a random badthinking redditor's screed becoming subject of some five minute hate on twitter or facebook.

If I were a US citizen, I'd be less enthusiastic than you seem to be about this situation, irrespective of coincidental alignment of (current) outcomes with personal moral sensibilities.

I'd want to look very hard at the fact that the control loop for "what you can't say" on the ad-driven internet runs through corporate ad departments and random twitter mobs.

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Re:Can Steve Huffman Save Reddit from Itself? by JulianMorrison on Wednesday October 07, 2015 @06:23AM (#10345153)

Much as I agree that advertising as an industry needs to die (and I recommend Patreon style funding to people wanting to be immune to advertisers), in practise putting the advertisers in an armlock has often been the only way to persuade overly idealistic free-speechers to put the brakes on stalking and doxxing, child porn and the suchlike.

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