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by gerikson 893 days ago
Usenet did have moderation, as per this Reddit post (ironically):

https://www.reddit.com/r/vintagecomputing/comments/m2dtcg/us...

Usenet preceded modern social media so the current discussions about who owns content didn't apply.

Reddit was remarkably open in the beginning. Anon accounts, light moderation, open API... it's when they decided to try to extract more value that it became really shitty.