frausting

I understand the not wanting to eat just plain fat, but cut it off AFTER you cook it so you still get the benefits.

a micropayment infrastructure

Isn’t that what killed GopherNet and ultimately helped WWW become the predominant internet?

Sorry I didn't mean outside forces like special interests or sponsored content, I meant more underlying neoliberal sociopolitical forces.

Like the conundrum that Redditors in general support separation of church and state but the other day there was a school that asked a teacher to take down a pink Hello Kitty Christmas tree and the vast majority of the comments attacked "SJWs" and how PC Culture is ruining the country whereas a couple of years ago, perhaps, Redditors would have supported the school based on separation of church and state.

Yeah that’s what I had thought.

CERN’s comment just made it seem like they were thinking adding a micropayment into the internet system may have been a good idea at the start. To which I asked isn’t that what GopherNet did, which is precisely why it didn’t take off (paid vs FOSS)

Not OP; I had the same question. The rest of the abstract led me to believe that his stance is that Reddit acts as a progressive portal of discussion but there are forces that push it toward reinforcing the norm and underlying neoliberal forces.