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Elon Musk Pressured Reddit CEO Steve Huffman about Moderation
- falcor84 2y agohttp://archive.today/RVmD2 http://archive.today/RVmD2
- Sunspark 2y agoIt will be interesting to see how the shareholders of the publicly traded company respond when the FBI, etc. start getting involved with the threats being made on that platform.
- EA-3167 2y agoI can't imagine that it took much pressure, given the ideological overlap between the two 'men' in question. I don't think that Spez is particularly burdened by standards or a dedication to fair moderation either, unless he's had a very late-in-life conversion to being decent.
- tetris11 2y agoIs this an apology piece for Spez now that Elon isn't cool with his friends anymore? He burned any redeemable goodwill a long time ago, and it's laughable that he thinks he can get it back.
- tim333 2y agoNot much of a story really. Some people made death threats over DOGE on reddit, Musk asked for them to be taken down and they were.
- kalleboo 2y agoIt's basically the same thing as the premise behind "The Twitter Files", isn't it? Someone in government sees rule-breaking content, reports it through back channels.
- maximinus_thrax 2y agoYes, but 'Dont Tread on Me' is only about the government. When we're talking about capitalists, it's 'Tread on Me harder, daddy'.
- aithrowawaycomm 2y agoThe problem is that it also included "doxxing" DOGE employees, even though they are significant public figures and their anonymity is almost certainly illegal. Protecting the identity of government employees who are more powerful than cabinet secretaries is plain abuse of ToS. (I will add that I don't believe most of the alleged death threats were real. I think Musk's concern was the "doxxing" and the death threats were a pretext.)