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Thousands of Reddit discussion forums have gone dark this week to protest a new policy that will charge some third-party apps to access data on the site, leading to worries about content ...
Steve Huffman, Reddit's CEO. On April 18, 2023, Reddit announced it would charge for its API service amid a potential initial public offering. [6] Speaking to The New York Times ' Mike Isaac, Reddit CEO Steve Huffman said, "The Reddit corpus of data is really valuable, but we don't need to give all of that value to some of the largest companies in the world for free".
Thousands of Reddit discussion forums have “gone dark” — temporarily closing their virtual doors — for what’s planned as a two-day protest over the company’s move to charge third-party ...
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On 12 August 2015 the whole of Reddit was blocked in Russia by Roskomnadzor because of a post made by a Reddit user on the site. The post is a guide for growing Psilocybe mushrooms. The block was lifted the next day after Reddit complied with Roskomnadzor's demand of blocking access from users in Russia to the specific post. [46] [47]
Wider protests were considered and in some cases committed to by major internet sites, with high-profile bodies such as Google, Facebook, Twitter, Yahoo, Amazon, AOL, Reddit, Mozilla, LinkedIn, IAC, eBay, PayPal, WordPress and Wikimedia being widely named as "considering" or committed to an "unprecedented" internet blackout on January 18, 2012.
UPDATE: Jun. 12, 2023, 11:52 a.m. EDT Reddit appeared to recover from its crash on Monday by about midday eastern time. The homepage was loading on desktop and outage reports were falling on Down ...
Reddit closes "/r/reddit.com" and expands its number of default subreddits to 20. [30] 2012: January: Community: Reddit announces that it will start a 12-hour sitewide blackout protesting the Stop Online Piracy Act. [31] [32] 2012: March: Team: Yishan Wong, a former Facebook employee and PayPal Mafia member, becomes Reddit CEO. [33] [34] 2012 ...