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[–] Joliet_Jake_Blues 0 points 3 points (+3|-0) ago 

A lot of the stuff he's talking about isn't a conspiracy or even reddit's fault, a lot of it is human nature. Like people wanting to be power mods, and have control over a lot of subs. That will happen on Voat too (even if we say they can only mod 10 subs, people will try to be a mod at the 10 biggest).

Ron Paul was made fun of on /r/circlejerk because Ron Paul was popular on reddit. If you aren't libertarian, libertarians are incredibly annoying and smug in their ignorance. A ripe target for parody.

Of course AMA was going to be monetized. Reddit is a business and its goal is to make money. If it can market celebrities and make money doing it, it's going to do that. It also drew a shitload of people to reddit. I forwarded AMAs to family/friends if I knew they were a fan of the subject. This introduced many of them to reddit and several ended up making accounts.

And the rest is the natural progression of a business growing from "fun idea that doesn't make money yet" to a business.

It got big, corporations wanted a presence. That's what they do. They are on twitter and Facebook and pinterest, etc. Of course they'll come to reddit.

I doubt the government really cared about reddit, however.

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[–] novictim ago 

The article, itself, was just propaganda, an attempt to give a SJW spin on why reddit is going down.

It takes my anticensorship side but with all the wrong examples.