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Remember when Spez said it was "It's time we grow up and behave like an adult company"? Apparently, that means paying himself $193 million and single-handedly tanking Reddit's profitability right b... (www.npr.org)
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Remember when Spez said it was "It's time we grow up and behave like an adult company"? Apparently, that means paying himself $193 million and single-handedly tanking Reddit's profitability right b...::undefined

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[–] friendofafriendofafriend@lemmy.world 2 points 1 year ago

The logic is that they don’t want to incentivise people to make more kiddie porn. If it’s legal and lucrative, more people would abuse children in order to make the videos. Kinda like outlawing ivory because elephants are endangered; that elephant is already dead, but if ivory remains profitable more will be killed.