remember when people needed enough brains to get online that most of them were capable of figuring out Usenet and IRC? Seriously, if you're a "mod" or "dev" whose life's work rotates around the good graces of a private company that doesn't give a flying f** about you, you're basically just a tapeworm in the colon of the consumer internet. Good luck with your protest; you sold your soul years ago.
Additionally, with reddit it gets a huge amount of consumer advertising, PR, marketing spend by companies but its not actually to reddit the company (paid mods, sock puppets, customer support, teams of PR "users" and fan boys all shill for their products and brand). Reddit sees other products being sold and want their cut.
