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There is no moral high ground for Reddit as it seeks to capitalise on user data | John Naughton (www.theguardian.com)
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CEO Steve Huffman says tech giants should not be able to trawl Reddit’s huge store of data for free. But that information came from users, not the company

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[–] RedCanasta@lemmy.fmhy.ml 7 points 1 year ago

He's completely right, except that tech giants include reddit itself...

Personal data is ours alone. If someone wants to sell it then so be it, but we own it not anyone else.