Quotes & Primary Documents

“Information is power. But like all power, there are those who want to keep it for themselves.”

“I feared retaliation. While at work today I received a number of phone calls from people telling me that they hated my guts, trying to buy the subreddit from me, and a number of people trying to get i…”

“We stand for free speech. This means we are not going to ban distasteful subreddits. We will not ban legal content even if we find it odious or if we personally condemn it.”

“We consider ourselves not just a company running a website where one can post links and discuss them, but the government of a new type of community.”

“it's not our site's goal to be a completely free-speech platform. We want to be a safe platform and we want to be a platform that also protects privacy at the same time.”

“We screwed up. Not just on July 2, but also over the past several years. We haven't communicated well, and we have surprised moderators and the community with big changes.”

“Yep. I messed with the "fuck u/spez" comments, replacing "spez" with r/the_donald mods for about an hour,”

“As the CEO, I shouldn't play such games, and it's all fixed now.”

“I believe the best defense against racism and other repugnant views, both on Reddit and in the world, is instead of trying to control what people can and cannot say through rules, is to repudiate thes…”

“Additionally, we are not the thought police. It's not the role of a private company to decide what people can and cannot say.”

“I'm saying this as a father who needs to be able to answer his black daughter when she asks, what did you do?”

“We conclude, based on the law as written by Congress, that civil plaintiffs seeking to overcome section 230 immunity for sex trafficking claims must plead and prove that a defendant-website's own cond…”

“The Reddit corpus of data is really valuable, but we don't need to give all of that value to some of the largest companies in the world for free.”

“His behavior and communications with us has been all over the place—saying one thing to us while saying something completely different externally; recording and leaking a private phone call—to the poi…”

“like all blowups on Reddit, this one will pass as well”

“The people who get there first get to stay there and pass it down to their descendants, and that is not democratic.”

“Given the broad awareness and brand recognition of Reddit, including as a result of the popularity of r/wallstreetbets among retail investors, and the direct access by retail investors to broadly avai…”

“We will not tolerate profit-seeking entities like Anthropic commercially exploiting Reddit content for billions of dollars without any return for redditors or respect for their privacy.”

“bills itself as the white knight of the AI industry. It is anything but.”

“so much of the internet is now just dead—this whole dead internet theory, right? Whether it's botted, whether it's quasi-AI, LinkedIn slop”

“distinct communities require distinct leaders. A situation where someone moderates an unlimited number of massive communities is not that.”

“For a long while, we were known as the 'front page of the internet,' but we've outgrown a singular front page for everyone.”

“Old Reddit's logged-out experience is a significant source of abusive scraping and automated traffic on the platform. It's also an important interface for many long-time mods and Redditors. To strike …”