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.
Ouch
I agree corporations won’t willingly reliquish their control, but that’s why the government steps in! I’m a socialist, so you can imagine how I want that done.
That’ll happen just as soon as the corporations don’t also pull the strings of the government. :D
We’re working on it! Very slowly…