We’ve been down this road before

Remember when Ellen Pao was the worst thing to ever happen to the world and was killing reddit with her… rules against revenge porn and blatant hate boards?

Remember how reddit “capitulated” and did what the community wanted and got rid of her? Hmm, who was it they replaced her with?

Reddit is preparing for an IPO and likely a buyout. The absolute best way the new owners can “win” is to solve all problems by getting rid of the current evil CEO, maybe rolling back one of the dozens of horrifically bad policy changes, and then calling it a win. Huffman gets a golden parachute and reddit is super happy and wonderful again.

Ellen Pao was actually right though. The attacks on her came from the far right and redditors lapped that shit up because reddit was (and still is) a misogynistic shithole. Her biggest crime was… Closing /r/fatpeoplehate.

If she’d stayed on Reddit wouldn’t have helped qanon, wouldn’t have helped cause theredpill movement, wouldn’t have caused the_donald, wouldn’t have caused a shit load of bad things.

Comparing Huffman to her is absurd. Huffman is a far right prepper. She is as far as I can tell a pretty well-meaning liberal, as far as tech CEOs go anyway, which is unusual given that the vast majority of them are far right crypto bro libertarian fuckheads.

The crime was turning up the censorship. Saying mean things should absolutely be allowed.

“Censorship” Her platform, her rules. Don’t like it? Leave. This ain’t a government, you have no free speech rights here or anywhere else on the internet, don’t like how a site operates/what a site allows? Then leave.