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[The Guardian] There is no moral high ground for Reddit as it seeks to capitalise on user data (www.theguardian.com)
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CEO Steve Huffman says tech giants should not be able to trawl Reddit’s huge store of data for free. But that information came from users, not the company

That “corpus of data” is the content posted by millions of Reddit users over the decades. It is a fascinating and valuable record of what they were thinking and obsessing about. Not the tiniest fraction of it was created by Huffman, his fellow executives or shareholders. It can only be seen as belonging to them because of whatever skewed “consent” agreement its credulous users felt obliged to click on before they could use the service.

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[–] 46 points 3 years ago (11 children)

I removed my content on that site in protest, and will continue to do so as it creeps back in right up to the day when either my every last comment is scrubbed, or I am locked out of my accounts.

No quarter.

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  • [–] 13 points 3 years ago (8 children)

    Don't just delete your comments, use a script to over write them.

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  • [–] 6 points 3 years ago (3 children)

    As another user pointed out, Reddit started reverting the changes made by scripts like Shreddit. Users that had previously overwritten their content this way must check if it's still gone.

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  • [–] 4 points 3 years ago (2 children)

    If the sub was locked, it seems the changes to the comments didn't take.

    Now some subs are starting to consider mass changes as spam, but for my own account I am down to a trickle I can edit by hand easily enough.

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