The Daily Dose

Former Reddit CEO Ellen Pao wrote in an op-ed for the  ‘Washington Post’ that free speech has given way to letting users silence others with hateful speech. The trolls are winning Reddit: This isn’t an easy problem to solve. To understand the challenges facing today’s Internet content platforms, layer onto that original balancing act a desire to grow audience and generate revenue. A large portion of the Internet audience enjoys edgy content and the behavior of the more extreme users; it wants to see the bad with the good, so it becomes harder to get rid of the ugly. But to attract…

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