Reddit is a threat to unionized journalists. They need top down control to maintain their privileges, like the guilds of old. Case example, for years Vox write

Reddit is a threat to unionized journalists. They need top down control to maintain their privileges, like the guilds of old. Case example, for years Vox writers published articles arguing for laws limiting the gig economy, like this one: https://www.vox.com/2016/10/26/13349498/gig-economy-profits-workers-desperate-services-labor https://www.vox.com/2016/10/26/13349498/gig-economy-profits-... Fast forward three years, a new anti-gig-economy law forces Vox to let go of hundreds of gig economy freelancers, thus reducing competition to the unionized journalists who agitated for the law: https://www.cnbc.com/2019/12/16/vox-media-to-cut-hundreds-of-freelance-jobs-ahead-of-californias-ab5.html https://www.cnbc.com/2019/12/16/vox-media-to-cut-hundreds-of...