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The statements that defined Reddit's story — executives' promises and reversals, admin announcements, court-filing lines, and investor disclosures. Every quote is attributed and cited.
“Information is power. But like all power, there are those who want to keep it for themselves.”
“We stand for free speech. This means we are not going to ban distasteful subreddits. We will not ban legal content even if we find it odious or if we personally condemn it.”
“We consider ourselves not just a company running a website where one can post links and discuss them, but the government of a new type of community.”
“it's not our site's goal to be a completely free-speech platform. We want to be a safe platform and we want to be a platform that also protects privacy at the same time.”
“We screwed up. Not just on July 2, but also over the past several years. We haven't communicated well, and we have surprised moderators and the community with big changes.”
“As the CEO, I shouldn't play such games, and it's all fixed now.”
“Yep. I messed with the "fuck u/spez" comments, replacing "spez" with r/the_donald mods for about an hour,”
“I believe the best defense against racism and other repugnant views, both on Reddit and in the world, is instead of trying to control what people can and cannot say through rules, is to repudiate thes…”
“I'm saying this as a father who needs to be able to answer his black daughter when she asks, what did you do?”
“We conclude, based on the law as written by Congress, that civil plaintiffs seeking to overcome section 230 immunity for sex trafficking claims must plead and prove that a defendant-website's own cond…”
“His behavior and communications with us has been all over the place—saying one thing to us while saying something completely different externally; recording and leaking a private phone call—to the poi…”
“The people who get there first get to stay there and pass it down to their descendants, and that is not democratic.”
“Given the broad awareness and brand recognition of Reddit, including as a result of the popularity of r/wallstreetbets among retail investors, and the direct access by retail investors to broadly avai…”
“bills itself as the white knight of the AI industry. It is anything but.”
“We will not tolerate profit-seeking entities like Anthropic commercially exploiting Reddit content for billions of dollars without any return for redditors or respect for their privacy.”
“so much of the internet is now just dead—this whole dead internet theory, right? Whether it's botted, whether it's quasi-AI, LinkedIn slop”