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[The Guardian] There is no moral high ground for Reddit as it seeks to capitalise on user data (www.theguardian.com)

submitted 1 year ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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CEO Steve Huffman says tech giants should not be able to trawl Reddit’s huge store of data for free. But that information came from users, not the company

That “corpus of data” is the content posted by millions of Reddit users over the decades. It is a fascinating and valuable record of what they were thinking and obsessing about. Not the tiniest fraction of it was created by Huffman, his fellow executives or shareholders. It can only be seen as belonging to them because of whatever skewed “consent” agreement its credulous users felt obliged to click on before they could use the service.

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[–] [email protected] 6 points 1 year ago (1 children)

I agree that this is a grey area, but it could really go either way. Anyway, giant corporations have been abusing individuals who can't afford lawsuits for decades. Even with precedent on your side, that probably wouldn't change.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 year ago

Yeah, if you think the current right-wing supreme court will find any big case in favor of individual vs corporations, that's wishful thinking