The Washington Post, a newspaper owned by billionaire Amazon founder Jeff Bezos, published an op-ed from former Reddit CEO Ellen Pao calling for regulations “to prevent rich people from controlling our channels of communication” — without a trace of irony.
Reddit, the self-proclaimed “front page of the internet” known for its rampant censorship, has banned users from posting links to Russian state media outlets like Russia Today and Sputnik.
“Deplatforming works,” boasted former Reddit CEO Ellen Pao, who became notorious among Reddit users for her pro-censorship policies during her brief tenure as head of the company, in a tweet posted this week.
Ellen Pao, who gained infamy overseeing Reddit’s lurch towards censorship during her brief tenure as CEO of the site in 2015, claims she knew Ghislaine Maxwell and Jeffrey Epstein supplied underage girls as sex toys for the rich & powerful — and said nothing.
New York Magazine claimed this week that most Internet traffic is “fake.”
Former Reddit CEO Ellen Pao, who was referred to as “Chairman Pao” by critical users during her time at Reddit, asked Silicon Valley tech company CEOs to crackdown on “incel” employees on Wednesday.
Top-tier venture capitalist Peter Thiel is ditching the intolerance of Silicon Valley and moving himself and his personal investment arm to Los Angeles for better business opportunities.
Peter Thiel has sold three-quarters of the Facebook shares he picked as Mark Zuckerberg’s first venture capitalist, even as the Silicon Valley boycott against him intensifies.
Silicon Valley’s Peter Thiel has finally cut ties with the Y Combinator investor fund, a year after being called a Silicon Valley traitor for his $1.25 million campaign contribution to Donald Trump’s presidential campaign.
Fenox Venture Capital CEO Anis Uzzaman has filed a lawsuit in San Francisco alleging that an alleged anonymous victim of sexual harassment who posted a salacious story online was a male competitor trying to trash his rival. SiliconValley.com reported that Uzzaman investigated
Silicon Valley social justice warriors are planning to publish a blacklist of venture capitalists they deem sexual harassers.
Ellen Pao may have been forced to pay her ex-employer $276,000 after losing Silicon Valley’s biggest gender discrimination and sexual harassment lawsuit, but Pao is about to crank up controversy again with the release of her memoir, titled Reset.
With Peter Thiel already infuriating Silicon Valley’s crony capitalist liberals by donating $1.25 million to Republican Donald Trump’s campaign, he is preparing to double-down by giving a Halloween keynote speech likening Trump to a Silicon Valley entrepreneur.
The Silicon Valley Thought Police are demanding retaliation against top venture capitalist Peter Thiel for making a $1.25 million contribution to Republican Donald Trump.
After a string of dismal failures in tech, former Reddit CEO Ellen Pao’s only option is to blame the white male patriarchy.
Ellen Pao has turned to the one thing she has proven effective at — talking loudly about diversity.
Since Obama bundler Chris Sacca led the board of directors coup to fire CEO Dick Costolo in June, Twitter has fallen from number 3 to number 7 in social media popularity, and the stock price has lost $12 billion in value.
Ellen Pao’s long-strange-trip included filing a historic gender discrimination lawsuit against former employer Kleiner Perkins Caufield & Byers, losing at trial, getting fired as CEO of Reddit, and now dropping her appeal and paying KPCB $276,000 in legal fees.
How can Twitter improve its sluggish growth? The company’s stock plummeted after interim chief executive Jack Dorsey said he was “not satisfied” with current user growth figures following the release of Twitter’s Q2 earnings report on Tuesday.
Reddit co-founder Steve Huffman has outlined a new content policy that many users fear marks a new era of censorship on the platform.
When Breitbart News published “Ellen Pao Out As Reddit CEO, Blames Site’s Users” recently, we received kudos from Reddit users for understanding it was Poa’s actions aimed at limiting users’ free speech in order to make the site more advertiser friendly that caused a user rebellion. But the business press continues to blame users, in articles such as the San Francisco Chronicle’s “Ellen Pao’s Ouster Shows Reddit CEO can’t Function under Mob Rule.”
Ellen Pao has resigned as CEO of Reddit following the worst set of user and moderator revolts in the site’s history, but Redditors who hoped her departure marked the end of threats to free speech on the site are likely to be disappointed.
Silicon Valley Business Journal just reported that “Ellen Pao is resigning from Reddit after eight months of drama as interim CEO.” Having kept her Reddit position despite losing America’s highest profile sexual discrimination lawsuits against what she called Silicon Valley’s “boy’s club,”
At the height of the Reddit revolt over the weekend, Voat added a note to their landing page confirming that they had been approached by venture capitalists.
Since we reported on the latest Reddit Revolt yesterday, the situation on the web culture giant has only escalated. Over 1400 user-created communities (“subreddits”) have been shut down, representing a combined subscriber base of over 124,000,000.
This followed the sacking of Victoria Taylor, a popular site admin, after a Reddit Q&A with the Rev. Jesse Jackson went badly for the activist preacher.
“PAO GET OUT NOW” shouts a post on the first page of the front page of Reddit. It links to a picture of Adolf Hitler with the face of CEO Ellen Pao superimposed upon it. This is now a common sight on Reddit, the influential “Front Page of the Internet”, a website whose users are in full-scale revolt against their administrators.
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.
It has been just two months since a San Francisco jury of six women and six men ruled against former junior partner Ellen Pao on all four of Pao’s claims of gender discrimination and retaliation against the prestigious Silicon Valley venture capital firm of
SAN FRANCISCO (AP) — A woman at the center of a high-profile gender bias lawsuit against an elite Silicon Valley venture capital firm filed an appeal on Monday of a jury verdict against her.
The five-week-long and very salacious trail against Kleiner Perkins Caufield & Byers for alleged sexual discrimination against Ellen Pao went to the jury Wednesday. The former junior partner is demanding $16 million for sexual discrimination and up to $144 million for punitive damages. Her suit has paved the way for a coming tsunami of diversity litigation across Silicon Valley.
Testimony finished on Friday in Ellen Pao’s sex discrimination trial against Kleiner Perkins Caufield & Byers (KPBC) and closing arguments are scheduled for Tuesday. Soon the trial will be in the hands of the six women and six men of the jury
Ellen Pao, who is suing for $16 million in damages for sexual harassment, was cross-examined over the past two days by attorneys for her former employer, Kleiner Perkins Caufield & Byers (KPBC). The defense depicted Pao as belligerent, full of
As the globe’s top venture capitalist, John Doerr of Kleiner Perkins Caufield & Byers has funded and mentored tons of start-up Silicon Valley companies that became fantastically successful, including Google, Amazon, Intuit, and Electronic Arts, Twitter, Square and Zynga. But one of his worst bets may turn out to be personally hiring Ellen Pao in 2005. Pao is dragging Doerr into her lawsuit for $16 million for sexual discrimination after 7 years at the firm.
Online microblogging site Reddit’s new interim CEO Ellen Pao, is seeking a massive $16 million in reparations stemming from a 2012 gender discrimination lawsuit against her former employee, venture capital firm Kleiner, Perkins, Caulfied & Byers.
