From NBC News:

Reddit CEO Steve Huffman said Thursday that he wants to bring an end to a user-led protest that has made large parts of the influential website inaccessible this week. Huffman said in an interview that he plans to institute rules changes that would allow Reddit users to vote out moderators who have overseen the protest, comparing them to a “landed gentry.”

If you haven’t heard, Reddit is raising costs of their API which may force future development of third-party Reddit apps such as Apollo to cease.

Imagine if Google changed the YouTube API and forced third-party YouTube apps such as SmartTube (which I have on my Android TV devices…it’s a great app) as well as YouTube downloader developers such as MediaHuman – in addition to all those online websites – where you can download YouTube videos and save them as MP3 audio files or even MP4 video files – to shut their doors.

The internet was once a home for free speech. Now the internet is being bastardized by money-grubbing CEOs who are more concerned with their wealth than free expression and – in the Reddit CEO’s case – the simple act of protesting.

My advice? Launch a mass boycott of Reddit, and put such a financial strain on their service that they have no choice but to acquiesce to the users who are tired of corporate bullshit or just shut the website down altogether.

If YouTube goes down this route, then boycott YouTube en masse and migrate to competitors such as Rumble.