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“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.”
— Yishan Wong, CEO of Reddit2014-09-06
- Speaker
- Yishan Wong
- Role
- CEO of Reddit
- Date
- 2014-09-06
- Type
- exec
Context
From Wong's blog post "Every Man Is Responsible for His Own Soul," responding to the celebrity nude-photo leak. He framed Reddit's moderation philosophy in quasi-governmental terms even as the company faced pressure to remove the hacked images.