The site is a <i>community</i> and is only profitable at the whim of its users. Those users were pitched the idea of a &quot;Free Speech Machine.&quot; If the company Reddit doesn&#x27;t deliver on that promise, the users will go somewhere else- as demonstrated by the Pao blackouts.<p>Don&#x27;t be so eager to defend a corporation&#x27;s right to be profitable. They also have to satisfy their customers&#x2F;users.