Reddit is not like Speakers’ Corner: IRL people have to own their hateful ideas

Aug10

by Sindy Cator on August 10, 2015 at 8:30 am

Over the weekend, The Verge published an interesting post drawing the connection between Reddit and London’s famous Speakers’ Corner. It’s not a huge leap to make, in fact, Reddit co-founder Alexis Ohanian explicitly names the landmark as one of the site’s inspirations. In May, during Reddit’s most recent explosion of dickhead behavior, he wrote: You know what inspired Reddit? Speakers’ Corner in London. I studied abroad in London for a semester and it really inspired me. I came back States-side and started a phpbb forum, and then a year later Steve and I made Reddit. It’s a place where literally anyone…