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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  • funkyb@lemmy.world
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    1 year ago

    there are are lot of idiots, a lot. I don’t know how to fix that, so I just ignore them and move on.

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      1 year ago

      You have to promote education as a primary value if you’re ever going to have a chance at reducing the idiots. Something at least large portions of the US aren’t interested in because dumb people are easier to control.