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  • Reddit Faces Massive User Protest for Banning Criticism of Controversial Employee

    03/25/2021 7:26:37 PM PDT · by Tolerance Sucks Rocks · 10 replies
    The Washington Free Beacon ^ | March 24, 2021 | Santi Ruiz
    Update 6:40 p.m.: Reddit CEO Steve Huffman announced that Aimee Challenor is no longer employed by the company, saying "we over-indexed on protection" and that Reddit had failed its own standards in this case.Dozens of Reddit pages have gone private in protest over the social media company's decision to censor criticism of an employee who hired her father, a child rapist, to run a political campaign Major forums like r/music, r/fitness, and r/coronavirus, which each have millions of users, have closed, along with hundreds of smaller forums. They are protesting a Reddit decision to ban users who mention Aimee Challenor,...
  • How to Buy the New York Times Co.

    01/29/2007 2:49:16 PM PST · by shrinkermd · 22 replies · 714+ views
    Slate ^ | 29 January 2007 | Daniel Gross
    This is a bad time to be head of a publicly held media company, and it's an especially bad time to be head of the publicly held New York Times Co. The stock has been staggering for the last five years. Morgan Stanley is pushing a shareholder resolution aimed at ending the company's dual-class stock structure, which allows the Sulzberger family to control the Times despite owning only a small portion of the stock. (According to the most recent proxy, Chairman Arthur Sulzberger Jr. owns about 5.3 percent of the company's stock.) Sulzberger has been derided everywhere for weak leadership,...