The landed gentry are only in charge until the king comes to town and chops off a few heads. At least that seems to be the case at Reddit, where CEO Steve Huffman pretended his complaints about current moderators — who were protesting his decision to effectively cut off API access to tons of useful…

  • Cyrus Draegur
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    391 year ago

    why did it have to be aaron swartz

    why couldn’t it have been huffman…

    • @c0c0c0
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      1 year ago

      I have an article Aaron wrote about the Freemont GM plant business case that I read every few months to remind me of the point he was making. And every time I read it, I am reminded of the ridiculous sequence of events that took him away. Sometimes, it really does seem like only the good die young.

      • @masquenox
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        61 year ago

        " A policeman beats up a protestor and we think “what an awful person,” not “what terrible training.”

        Yeah… that aged like milk.

    • @pfannkuchen
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      141 year ago

      Good people do good things and get punished by bad people.

      Bad people do bad things and get rewarded.

    • @Orbitrix
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      91 year ago

      oof. Kinda dark and morbid. But I get it.

    • @[email protected]
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      01 year ago

      Conspiracy theory time. Huffman murdered Aaron and made it look like a suicide because he didn’t want Reddit to sell out.