#38 Inside Reddit and the Internet's Free Speech Conundrum with Erik Martin (u/hueypriest)

Erik Martin was the longtime General Manager of Reddit. He’s currently a  Lead Entrepreneur at Nike and has worked as a marketing/community  executive for Airtime, WeWork, and Depop. He's been named one of the  world's 100 most influential people by Time Magazine, as well as a top  50 innovator by Adweek. He also runs the site Assholes on Demand where  he helps people who aren’t extremely online deal with online problems.  In this conversation we talked about the early stages of Reddit and how  he got involved with it, the complexities of moderation and how the  scale of Internet users makes it so difficult, the broader free speech  debate online, forming ideologies online, older generations using new  technology, and more. Enjoy!  

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