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

I am enjoying being able to observe this story from the beginning, before the media started writing about it. It's been an interesting few weeks.

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  • [+] -30 points 3 years ago (10 children)

    Also there is no moral high ground for The Guardian as an evil corp to comment on the Reddit dumpster fire

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  • [–] [S] 25 points 3 years ago*

    They are literally the only UK daily newspaper not owned by some rich owner or conglomerate, and about the only newspaper (along with the observer) that does not publicly support one of the two main political parties.

    And 2018 study found the guardian was by far the most trusted of the uk daily's, and second only to the bbc as a news source https://www.pewresearch.org/journalism/2018/10/30/western-europeans-under-30-view-news-media-less-positively-rely-more-on-digital-platforms-than-older-adults/

    but yes, im a Guardian reader so maybe biased. but theres a reason I read them, and not another.

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  • [–] 16 points 3 years ago (7 children)

    How are they evil? After doing a google search to see how they perform as a news organization, I’m genuinely curious about your viewpoint.

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  • [–] 12 points 3 years ago (5 children)

    One of the few not owned by a rich proprietor, iirc?

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

    This is what I noticed as well. Someone correct me if I’m wrong, but they seem to have the appearance of being as unbiased as NPR, AP, or BBC.

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  • [–] -1 points 3 years ago (2 children)

    Someone correct me if I’m wrong, but they seem to have the appearance of being as unbiased as NPR, AP, or BBC.

    I would not say that NPR has the appearance of being unbiased. I think everyone I know considers it mild- to moderately-biased on the liberal side.

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