Tedesche

Wah, wah, waaaaaaaaaah….

While I obviously do think such platforms should take measures to curb abuse like this, I am also wary of penalizing them for a phenomenon they don’t cause and can’t really control. The sad fact is that sex traffickers are always going to take advantage of platforms like this, no matter how well-meaning said platforms are, and holding them accountable for preventing it risks making said ventures impossible as business ventures. There needs to be a reasonable standard for what we expect from these companies in terms of safeguards against this kind of abuse.

No. Most of Reddit’s population has proven they don’t care about changes that much more directly affect their user experience. I can’t see a significant portion of them caring about who owns the platform if they don’t care about that.

I think it’s a bit ironic that Wikipedia hasn’t succumbed to the modern era of misinformation the way other information sources have, particularly given the warnings about it that have been given in the past. Not saying those warnings aren’t warranted, just that the way things have played out is counter to said expectations.