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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    • @lucidinferno
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      92 years ago

      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.

      • 💡dimOP
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        172 years ago

        They are essentially liberal, if a little left sided of centre, but I think they are the only UK newspaper that does not publicly support any political parties.

      • Jeremy [Iowa]
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        -52 years ago

        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.

        • @lucidinferno
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          62 years ago

          Interesting. If it’s not too personal, do the majority of people you know lean left or right?

          • Jeremy [Iowa]
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            I think most the people who I know either lean liberal or libertarian, with a few right leans.