Reddit Revolts + MrBeast’s YouTube Empire + Peak Trust and Safety?

Hard Fork

The New York Times

Technology

4.5 • 5.2K Ratings

🗓️ 16 June 2023

⏱️ 79 minutes

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Summary

Moderators on Reddit have shut down their forums in protest of a new policy that charges users for access to the site’s API. The revolt has put Kevin in child care-wisdom-withdrawal (RIP r/daddit) — and left many other users without their favorite subreddits. But does the incident say something more about the future of the internet? Then, the MrBeast Philanthropic-Industrial Complex. Plus: Platforms are already fumbling the ball on misinformation.

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0:00.0	So you've been in Hawaii now for what a couple days?
0:03.1	Yeah, I got here on Sunday.
0:05.5	I did see something in this hotel for the first time in my life and I almost fell over
0:10.0	what I saw.
0:11.0	Are you ready for what is actually in my hotel room?
0:13.2	Yes.
0:14.2	A USB-C charging port.
0:16.2	Wait, which one is USB-C?
0:18.8	This is the sort of modern connector that you're going to use to charge your MacBook that
0:23.6	you're going to use to charge.
0:24.6	This is the new one.
0:25.6	Yes.
0:26.6	You charge your iPad with this if you have an iPad.
0:29.1	I don't know about you, but remember when iPods came out and you had charged them with those
0:33.6	little 30 pin connectors and eventually hotels would buy a alarm clock so they would have
0:39.4	this 30 pin connector in it.
0:40.7	And it was really nice that they did that.
0:42.2	The problem was that they never updated the 30 pin connectors in the hotel room.
0:45.8	So I've spent the past 10 years just going to these hotels that are so well suited to
0:50.3	charge an iPod and nothing else.
0:52.6	And today, for the first time in my life, there's actually a modern port in the hotel room
0:59.0	and that's just the spirit of progress in this country.
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