ALLUM BOKHARI: Will Reddit Revolt Against Ellen Pao? “When failed discrimination plaintiff Ellen Pao was appointed CEO of Reddit last January, many predicted that it would herald a new age of censorship on the link-sharing and discussion site. Those predictions appear to have come true, as a number of communities on the site (known as ‘subreddits’) have just been unilaterally shut down.”

Censorship is damage. Route around it. It’s not like Reddit’s success is based on technology that no one else can emulate.