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Reddit CEO calls TikTok ‘parasitic,’ sparking a truly insane discussion on – where else – Reddit

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It strikes me as a little ironic that, just one day after Reddit CEO Steve Huffman's broadside about TikTok being "fundamentally parasitic," it sparked at least one massive Reddit thread so intense and even packed with criticism of Huffman's leadership that said thread is now locked and closed-off to new comments. Huffman, who's also a co-founder of Reddit, was at a public event Wednesday night when he leveled his criticism onstage at TikTok, an upstart, massively popular new social network that's owned by a Chinese parent company. "I look at that app as so fundamentally parasitic, that it’s always listening, the fingerprinting technology they use is truly terrifying, and I could not bring myself to install an app like that on my phone," Huffman said from the stage. “I actively tell people, ‘Don’t install that spyware on your phone." Naturally, Reddit has pretty much exploded with discussion threads around this news -- almost two dozen such ...

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