Huffman has said, “We are not in the business of giving that [Reddit’s content] away for free.” That stance makes sense. But it also ignores the reality that all of Reddit’s content has been given to it for free by its millions of users. Further, it leaves aside the fact that the content has been orchestrated by its thousands of volunteer moderators.
touché
Also, that stance doesn’t make sense. Stances aren’t assessed in terms of sense making in a vacuum. A stance doesn’t mean anything without its context and I the context of reddit, it doesn’t make sense to keep content behind paywalls.