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Reddit Founder Alexis Ohanian Resigns from the Board of Reddit

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Re: Reddit Founder Alexis Ohanian Resigns from the Board of Reddit

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Post by lreeves »

tw000001 wrote: post #265
minimaxir wrote: post #3

Relevant context: recently, former Reddit CEO Ellen Pao called out Reddit for their policies after Reddit did a statement on Black Lives Matter: > I am obligated to call you out: You should have shut down the_donald instead of amplifying it and its hate, racism, and violence. So much of what is happening now lies at your feet. You don't get to say BLM when reddit nurtures and monetizes white supremacy and hate all da…

> I am obligated to call you out: You should have shut down the_donald instead of amplifying it and its hate, racism, and violence. So much of what is happening now lies at your feet. You don't get to say BLM when reddit nurtures and monetizes white supremacy and hate all day long Yeah! How dare they refuse to deplatform 40-60% of the population after they've been thoroughly slandered and misrepresented as white supr…

Ah yes, the "look what you made me do" defense - just as valid here as in cases of domestic violence.

Re: Reddit Founder Alexis Ohanian Resigns from the Board of Reddit

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Post by kirstenbirgit »

lksaar wrote: post #49
psychometry wrote: post #6

Earlier quoted context omitted.

You must be kidding. Please tell me you're kidding. Ever been to /r/the_donald? /r/conspiracy? /r/protectandserve?

r/mgtow, r/metacanada, r/KotakuInAction, r/TumblrinAction, r/unpopularopinion, r/politicalcompassmemes are candidates. The subreddit about the upcoming AAA game "The Last of Us 2" is pretty vile aswell.

None of those even scratch the surface of what used to be on reddit back in the days

Re: Reddit Founder Alexis Ohanian Resigns from the Board of Reddit

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Post by dredmorbius »

xnx wrote: post #153
kube-system wrote: post #108

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Social media is wildly influential. At this point, it is likely more influential than any other form of media. Reddit is the #2 social media platform by traffic in the US, after Facebook.

My feeling is that the world at large underestimates the impact of social media and Hacker news overestimates it. Not sure how to rate the infulential-ness of different media, but Fox News was HUGELY influential to the voters that decided the last presidential election: https://www.vox.com/2019/3/4/18249847/fox-news-effect-swing-...

Media, generally, catalyzes and facilitates social change, often in bad ways.

That's the central premise of Elizabeth Eisenstein's The Printing Press as an Agent of Change (1980) https://www.cambridge.org/core/books/printing-press-as-an-ag...

I've compiled a related bibliography that gets at other aspects, including social and online media.

https://old.reddit.com/r/dredmorbius/comments/7k7l4m/media_a...

Re: Reddit Founder Alexis Ohanian Resigns from the Board of Reddit

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Post by foldr »

jcims wrote: post #223
stronglikedan wrote: post #113

Earlier quoted context omitted.

> 24% of people killed by police are black > African Americans, however, account for 24 percent of those fatally shot and killed by the police despite being just 13 percent of the U.S. population. As The Post noted in a new analysis published last week, that means black Americans are 2.5 times as likely as white Americans to be shot and killed by police officers. [0] [0] https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/post-natio…

> black Americans are 2.5 times as likely as white Americans to be shot and killed by police officers. Black Americans are also 4 times as likely (per capita) to kill a police officer. https://ucr.fbi.gov/leoka/2018/topic-pages/officers-feloniou... (bottom of page) The reality of course is that the relationship between law enforcement and the black community is dogshit. There are terrible people on both sides that es…

It's hard to reconcile that theory with the facts of most of the cases that make the news. For example, the police officers who killed George Floyd clearly had no reason to fear for their lives. Or what about all the black folks shot in bed in no-knock raids?

The first step everyone needs to take to resolve this problem is to stop blaming the victims of police violence.

Re: Reddit Founder Alexis Ohanian Resigns from the Board of Reddit

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Post by vharuck »

izzydata wrote: post #142
MarcellusDrum wrote: post #32

Reddit got too mainstream for its own good. The company desperately wants to become the new social media (think Facebook or Twitter), but many users are standing in the way, making the change from a discussion website to a social media website slow. What made me and many others use Reddit in the first place is that it didn't really matter who you are and what's your political and religious background, the only thing…

I don't like reddit because discussion is always influenced by what needs to be said in order to be more popular. If reddit got rid of usernames and karma then I think it would be ideal.

That's 4chan

Re: Reddit Founder Alexis Ohanian Resigns from the Board of Reddit

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Post by devnull3456 »

KKKKkkkk1 wrote: post #266
geofft wrote: post #100

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Relevant, but I think the timeline is a bit subtler than that. (Mostly, the CEO referenced in that story is Wong himself, not Pao.) - Reddit was acquired by Condé Nast in 2006. - Founders Alexis Ohanian and Steve Huffman left in 2009. - Yishan Wong became CEO in March 2012. - Reddit raised its Series B in September 2014, led by Sam Altman. Wong was one of the investors. - Wong resigns in November 2014. Ellen Pao beco…

It's interesting how sexual harassment has long-term implications for one's career. You're a VC partner who is sexually harassed by another partner, as a consequence you get pushed out, as a consequence you're forced to take a position at a failing company, as a consequence you're forced to take the role of the fall guy by the failing company's founders, and as a consequence your career in tech is over. It's remarkab…

Citation needed. Her sexual harassment claims were false, and she lost her court case. Perhaps what you are seeing is evidence that she is difficult to work with, and bad at her job.

Re: Reddit Founder Alexis Ohanian Resigns from the Board of Reddit

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Post by kilo_bravo_3 »

shibeouya wrote: post #273
minimaxir wrote: post #3

Relevant context: recently, former Reddit CEO Ellen Pao called out Reddit for their policies after Reddit did a statement on Black Lives Matter: > I am obligated to call you out: You should have shut down the_donald instead of amplifying it and its hate, racism, and violence. So much of what is happening now lies at your feet. You don't get to say BLM when reddit nurtures and monetizes white supremacy and hate all da…

Criticizing the_donald but not a word about the countless antifa subreddit literally promoting arson and violence? Yeah, that does not look partisan at all! /s

ANTIFA broke into my house, peed on all of my pants, and now they're dead.

ANTIFA made me eat too much and now I'm bloated and gassy.

ANTIFA directed the last season of Game of Thrones.

ANTIFA moved my coffee table and I stubbed my toe on it last night.

ANTIFA must be stopped. If they start killing people they might eventually, one day, end up being 1% as dangerous as the people they're opposed to.

Re: Reddit Founder Alexis Ohanian Resigns from the Board of Reddit

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Post by devnull3456 »

purephase wrote: post #12
minimaxir wrote: post #3

Relevant context: recently, former Reddit CEO Ellen Pao called out Reddit for their policies after Reddit did a statement on Black Lives Matter: > I am obligated to call you out: You should have shut down the_donald instead of amplifying it and its hate, racism, and violence. So much of what is happening now lies at your feet. You don't get to say BLM when reddit nurtures and monetizes white supremacy and hate all da…

Yeah, TD alone was huge in 2016-2017 and was a huge contributor to the dynamic we have in the world today. Ellen is 100% right here and Alex did absolutely nothing to address it. Good on her for publicly calling it out.

Is TD responsible for the cities currently being burned down and looted?

Re: Reddit Founder Alexis Ohanian Resigns from the Board of Reddit

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Post by haunter »

>I have urged them to fill my seat with a black candidate

I'm not american but does racial quotas have any support? Say every company should have X% of N races on the board? South Africa for example have something like this in their (still majority white) sports teams.

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Post by geofft »

bananabreakfast wrote: post #288
KKKKkkkk1 wrote: post #266

Earlier quoted context omitted.

It's interesting how sexual harassment has long-term implications for one's career. You're a VC partner who is sexually harassed by another partner, as a consequence you get pushed out, as a consequence you're forced to take a position at a failing company, as a consequence you're forced to take the role of the fall guy by the failing company's founders, and as a consequence your career in tech is over. It's remarkab…

Keep in mind that it was found that all of her allegations of sexual harassment were completely unfounded and she was likely just trying to get a settlement to help her dire financial situation

> it was found that all of her allegations of sexual harassment were completely unfounded

Do you have a source for this?

The courts ruled in Pao v. Kleiner Perkins that Kleiner Perkins did not discriminate against her. I don't think they ruled on whether or not Ajit Nazre sexually harassed her (or others), and evidence for it was presented in the case. I'm pretty sure they did not rule that the allegations were "completely unfounded."

> she was likely just trying to get a settlement to help her dire financial situation

Given the publicity around how her case was the first like it, you'd have to be very, very foolhardy to go into it for financial reasons, especially if you didn't think you had a strong case. And if you were going for a settlement, you wouldn't want it to actually go to court if the other side didn't offer one, you'd just withdraw the lawsuit.

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