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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)

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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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[-] LouieTheLab@sh.itjust.works 5 points 2 years ago

Ugh. Poignant few paragraphs. Such a flippant and pugnacious individual. Sophistic and specious reasoning won't undo this sliver of time - this is his gift unto himself. Pariah, perhaps. How does an individual see the results of their actions, know that they can never be undone and be, well, without conscience, for the forseable future? Our actions are literally life's ink. We can't roll the clock back. Our name/stamp/signature is on our every/very breath. Regret, if our chemistry allows, - sorry, gotta go, my mums here, fuck off ..

[-] minimar@lemmy.world 5 points 2 years ago

what the fuck is this comment lmao

[-] MiddleWeigh@lemmy.world 1 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago)

regret, if our chemistry allows, this but one fickle moment mining deep rocks for small things. I can't feel or hear or breathe with all the desperation outside of me. What do I feel? Am I born? Am I alone? I can't tell, the noise is muffled by my own chain of biological command. mom, I can't hear you anymore.