Thousands of subreddits chose to go dark in an ongoing protest over the company's plan to start charging certain third-party developers to access the site’s data.
Wow. Front page of huffpost.com right now. Interesting…
“Protest and dissent is important,” Huffman said. “The problem with this one is it’s not going to change anything because we made a business decision that we’re not negotiating on.”
Honestly, my reply to this particular statement is that maybe Reddit should die!
I’m not entirely sure that Steve Huffman understands how protests work. The whole point is you don’t have control over them, friendo.
You can’t just say but we made a business decision and expect people to just say welp guess we should give up, there’s no overcoming business decisions.
“Protest and dissent is important,” Huffman said. “The problem with this one is it’s not going to change anything because we made a business decision that we’re not negotiating on.”
Honestly, my reply to this particular statement is that maybe Reddit should die!
That quote is fucking wild. spez, a man of the people, all for protesting except for this time because he’s nOt NeGoTiAtInG. Lol k, same bud.
I’m not entirely sure that Steve Huffman understands how protests work. The whole point is you don’t have control over them, friendo.
You can’t just say but we made a business decision and expect people to just say welp guess we should give up, there’s no overcoming business decisions.