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Comment by michael_dorfman | Hacker News Reader

Nope; it confirms that the Reddit guys and their Conde Nast overlords don't see eye-to-eye on a lot of issues, and that Reddit is not given the freedom (or resources, apparently) to run itself as it sees fit.

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That's kinda my point - if reddit can not be allowed the freedom then CN (or AP or the Newhouse Family) have control over reddit and not reddit themselves. The donations requested are thus donations to the billionaire Newhouse cause and not to an independently run reddit.

That's just how it appears to me.

CN bought reddit so they can do whatever they want to do with reddit. Either you take the cash or you leave it.

True, but there's also the massive anarchistic user base. /r/all is/was yelling censorship top to bottom. Starting to look a lot like the Digg Revolt[1] circa '07 regarding the 09 F9 .. censorship.

[1] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/AACS_encryption_key_controversy...

Not really, during the aacs thing digg literally stopped to function under the weight of 09 f9 subissions. In comparison I've seen more pro-Ron Paul sentimennt on the front page at any given time than I have prop 19 stuff today.

Reddit responded to the prop 19 issue far more quickly than digg responded to the 09 f9 issue, mind.

Definitely true, I distinctly recall the first few submissions on 09 f9 in the evening, then the next day they started doing bans arround midday, and then finally the site came crashing down about 24 hours after it originally started.

Ah, yes, the Digg revolt of '07. Never had I seen so much online bloodshed and destruction.

We lost a lot of good users that day...

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Disappointing. The downside to liquidity events, I suppose.

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