[gohrt]

> Reddit is not beholden to to their users to the degree that those users probably believe. Nor are they beholden to some imagined ethos about being a place where all speech is protected.

And yet, when those non-"beholding" users revolted, Pao apologizes to them, instead of continuing to ignore them.

> imagined ethos about being a place where all speech is protected.

"imagined" by... the Reddit administrators.

http://www.reddit.com/rules

"reddit is a pretty open platform and free speech place, but there are a few rules"

[psychometry]

Exactly, they are merely "pretty open" and can change the rules as they see fit. Like I said, any belief that all speech should be protected on reddit is false.