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I want to point out that him saying Reddit was not created to be a bastion of free speech doesn't contradict anything else he said. Something can become something you didn't expect or plan it to. For a while, Reddit was a bastion of free speech. It hasn't been for a very long time (how long ago did they ban child pornography?). That isn't hypocritical.
Comment by fairly_quiet at 16/07/2015 at 21:06 UTC
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technically speaking, no. it is not hypocrisy. but when taken in context we see that he's totally on board with the idea when it's working in his favor. and when it's not working in his favor he falls back on the, "10 years ago I wanted to do something different".
it gets really old to keep hearing him say that. he's repeating it so many times i'm convinced that he's been coached by a PR firm in order to get that message out there. and the thing is, it doesn't matter one bit what he started reddit for. reddit is what reddit is now. you don't base decisions on what you wanted a decade ago. you take the world as it is and work with it as best you can.