Wong seemed to suggest the experiment in a wild, consequence-free, purely user-driven Reddit had failed: "We tried to let you govern yourselves and you failed, so now The Man is going to set some Rules." Wong wrote that "hat all the white-power racist-sexist neckbeards don't understand" is that Pao "probably would have tolerated your existence so long as you didn't cause any problems," and her presence atop the site would actually have protected Reddit from further censorship. In fact, he said, they had ousted their best ally in Reddit's culture of free speech absolutism - and that Reddit's culture had become so toxic and hateful that the hammer was about to come down. Late on Tuesday, a prior CEO of Reddit, Yishan Wong, posted on the site that the users were mistaken. Reddit's users thought they'd won victory for their values of free speech absolutism and resistance against the political correctness culture of oppression. Related The Reddit revolt that led to CEO Ellen Pao's resignation, explained
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