Reddit to Give 10% of Its 2014 Ad Revenue to Non-Profits Picked by Its Users

Re:Reddit to Give 10% of Its 2014 Ad Revenue to Non-Profits ... by pxlpshr on Friday February 28, 2014 @03:16PM (#7321163)

Does anyone else feel like this is extremely suspicious (classic misdirection) given the negativity surrounding the moderation of Snowden's latest leak?

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Re:Reddit to Give 10% of Its 2014 Ad Revenue to Non-Profits ... by untog on Friday February 28, 2014 @03:21PM (#7321195)

Are you serious? Of course it isn't. Not everything is a conspiracy theory, you know. That was to to do with the moderators of /r/news and nothing to do with Reddit itself.

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Re:Reddit to Give 10% of Its 2014 Ad Revenue to Non-Profits ... by pxlpshr on Friday February 28, 2014 @03:23PM (#7321210)

I'm willing to believe both sides of the coin now. Traditionally, I'm not a tin foil hat kinda guy.

I proposed a question that I thought was worth discussing considering the leaked presentation which highlights the psychological theater orchestrated by our government on a regular basis. Admittedly, I'm not nose-deep in all of the Snowden/Reddit drama either.

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Re:Reddit to Give 10% of Its 2014 Ad Revenue to Non-Profits ... by MisterWebz on Friday February 28, 2014 @04:03PM (#7321479)

A company is trying to get some good press after a lot of bad press. Must be some kind of conspiracy theory, right?

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Re:Reddit to Give 10% of Its 2014 Ad Revenue to Non-Profits ... by Crito on Friday February 28, 2014 @04:22PM (#7321580)

If I haven't already read about it in the newspaper, then it must be a loony conspiracy theory. /s

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Re:Reddit to Give 10% of Its 2014 Ad Revenue to Non-Profits ... by Dan_Nguyen on Friday February 28, 2014 @03:43PM (#7321348)

I don't at all.

1. The moderation is very recent news, and something like this isn't banged out in 24 hours. Likely this has been in the works for a while, before news broke of the Snowden moderation.

2. The mods on subreddits like r/news are different people from the admins of Reddit. Obvious bias within the subreddits, but I have little reason to believe that it's a site-wide conspiracy from the admins rather than controversial decision making from subreddit mods.

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Re:Reddit to Give 10% of Its 2014 Ad Revenue to Non-Profits ... by bfish510 on Friday February 28, 2014 @03:18PM (#7321182)

A decision like this isn't made over night.

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Re:Reddit to Give 10% of Its 2014 Ad Revenue to Non-Profits ... by Crito on Friday February 28, 2014 @03:41PM (#7321340)

Presumably they were not blindsided by these 'revelations' overnight either.

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Re:Reddit to Give 10% of Its 2014 Ad Revenue to Non-Profits ... by hemabe on Friday February 28, 2014 @03:22PM (#7321205)

Let's see what happens, if donations for Edward Snowden are ranked #1 at the end of the year... :)

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Re:Reddit to Give 10% of Its 2014 Ad Revenue to Non-Profits ... by Dan_Nguyen on Friday February 28, 2014 @04:36PM (#7321654)

Not sure if you're joking (I can be tone deaf with text comments), but that's never going to happen. Reddit specifically stated they're only going to open suggestions for 501(c)(3) organizations. Besides, even if they didn't, it'd be hard getting money from an American company into the hands of someone actively being pursued by the American government.

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Re:Reddit to Give 10% of Its 2014 Ad Revenue to Non-Profits ... by winslow on Friday February 28, 2014 @05:28PM (#7321974)

Can someone possibly fill me in on what the latest leak is and why Reddit (Conde Nast) would be involved? The latest leak I've found is the webcam spying that GCHQ has been doing.

Edit: Looks like possibly this story related to the r/news subreddit and not necessarily reddit in general? [1]

[1] - http://mashable.com/2014/02/27/reddit-censoring-greenwald/

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Re:Reddit to Give 10% of Its 2014 Ad Revenue to Non-Profits ... by redthrowaway on Friday February 28, 2014 @03:53PM (#7321420)

No.

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