> Why charge? > It’s very expensive to run – it takes millions of dollars to effectively subsidize other people’s businesses / apps. > It’s an extraordinary amount of data, and these are for-profit businesses built on our data for free.

This is rich. The entire for-profit Reddit business is based on people contributing data for free, subsidizing their for-profit business. These guys couldn’t be any more clueless.

I remember a long while back someone on HN characterized the Reddit leadership team as like a regular driver who's dropped into the seat of a formula 1 car halfway through a race, in the lead. Tons of momentum but the person at the controls can't keep from steering it into the wall.

It hasn't stopped them from becoming personally wealthy and "powerful" in whatever world they live in. If you keep being told not to touch the hot stove, but not touching the hot stove doesn't burn you, not only will you NOT learn to not touch the stove, but you will learn to not listen to people who tell you not to do other things.

We owe it to the world to make sure touching the stove DOES burn you, otherwise it's just DARE all over again.

Thanks!