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They were always going to do that, the squeeze is basically required if you're planning on making a public offering and become beholden to investors.

Now just imagine for a moment, the same company in the late 2000s taking a completely different path. Imagine they offered the moderators to become worker-owners and Reddit became a cooperative rather than investor owned.

Imagine how much better the world would have been, and weep for the timeline capitalism just extracted from everyone.

Sure, let me explain:

JSTOR is an online repository where institutions pay a subscription for access to an online library. Aaron Swartz worked to download the entire online library to ensure that it could be provided to all for free. I think it's safe to say that if he were alive today, he would be very much against the actions of his former co-founder, and would be leading the charge.