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The company wants to charge for API access. Its volunteer moderators have other ideas

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And Reddit has been backed by Tencent - CCP supporters by default - and Peter Thiel - a white supremacists and actual, literal fascist.

The politics of the people behind for-profit endeavours that the public has no actual control over regardless of stake seemingly never comes up. The politics of people behind things that challenge for-profit endeavours and gives control of things back to the public is often under the microscope.

We don’t know ernest’s politics. What if it came out tomorrow that he was an anarchist? Or that he was also a Leninist? Or was a white supremacist? Or that he liked Nickelback?

Or that he liked Nickelback?

I’ll see past many things, but Nickelback?

Not even once.

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