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“Additionally, we are not the thought police. It's not the role of a private company to decide what people can and cannot say.”
— Steve Huffman, CEO of Reddit2018-07
- Speaker
- Steve Huffman
- Role
- CEO of Reddit
- Date
- 2018-07
- Type
- exec
Context
Private messages to a 17-year-old user who had pressed Huffman on why Reddit, unlike its peers, drew no line against hate speech. After the teenager published the exchange, his account was suspended for a week — a sequence that became a defining artifact of Reddit's pre-2020 content-policy doctrine.