Reddit is not a public utility or a public square; it's a privately owned space on the Internet.
Sentiment: NEGATIVE
It's as if our electric grid didn't even have fences around it. This is disgraceful what we do, and what we don't do, to protect the Internet.
What the Internet has done is it has decentralised power.
The public is a part of my real life.
You used to have to own a radio tower or television tower or printing press. Now all you have to have is access to an Internet cafe or a public library, and you can put your thoughts out in public.
The Internet lives where anyone can access it.
We need to start seeing privacy as a commons - as some kind of a public good that can get depleted as too many people treat it carelessly or abandon it too eagerly. What is privacy for? This question needs an urgent answer.
The Internet has become a hate-filled town square with no limits put on destructive verbal behavior.
The Internet is by the people, for the people.
Reddit strives to be a community-oriented link-sharing and news site, which means that all our content is submitted and voted on by members of our community. We don't interfere with that process at all, either in an editorial or curation capacity.
In Google's world, public space is just something that stands between your house and the well-reviewed restaurant that you are dying to get to.