>Free speech is between you and the government. No. Free speech is a principle that any party can choose to respect. Free speech has been one of the very core

>Free speech is between you and the government. No. Free speech is a principle that any party can choose to respect. Free speech has been one of the very core values of Reddit right from the beginning, in the form of the ability to create and manage a subreddit with very minimal restrictions. Being a platform of free speech was the single biggest reason Reddit grew to be the giant community that it is today. Then Pao comes along and repeatedly shows that she doesn't respect free speech at all. What do you expect the users to do, other than revolt? It's easy to brush off these incidents as the doings of "the ugliest users", but remember that beauty is in the eye of the beholder. History books are filled with people being silenced due to their expression of uncomfortable ideas.