At this point, the resignation of Steve Huffman would be the only thing to have me consider potentially coming back.

1. They’ll not roll back the api pricing
2. Our data will be what is leaked.

I don’t see how this helps anything.

BlackCat announced it would delete the information if Reddit gives it $4.5 million and reverses API price increases.

Now, unlike Christian Selig asking for $10 million to essentially sell Apollo to Reddit, this actually is a threat. Let’s see what Steve Huffman’s response to this is…

If nothing of consequence is released, I’ll pay a little more credence to the theories that this is an inside job meant to discredit the opposition. If OTOH the data does show a disturbing level of detail being collected on users, and it exposes Reddit’s secret shadowbanning and deboosting of folks it doesn’t like, it’s going to empower the resistance like nothing else that’s happened yet. Spez is arguably in the self own business but this would take it to brand new heights.

People HATE that deboosting shit. People HATE the idea that the corps track this data to try and get inside your head and see how you think and act, so they can better influence it to their own ends. And right now, it’s no longer really about an app as it is, it’s all about meta. This will be gasoline on the fire.

Fuck u/spez

This will get very interesting.

File that under “things that will never happen.” Reddit is not going to reverse course. Period. So the data will be released and that will be the end of it.

This is probably going to lead to the media accusing the protesters of being hackers.