Thousands of people have signed a petition to get the CEO of Reddit Ellen Pao fired (update: it worked, she’s been fired). The outrage started when former Reddit CEO Ellen Pao fired a popular Reddit staff member. Cenk Uygur and Ana Kasparian (The Point) hosts of The Young Turks break down the story.
Read more here: http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2015/07/06/ellen-pao-reddit-apology_n_7739202.html
“Reddit CEO Ellen Pao apologized to the website’s devoted and vocal users on Monday after abruptly firing a well-liked staffer and triggering a mass revolt by volunteer moderators that shut down large swaths of the site last week.
Pao, who lost a high-profile gender discrimination case against her former employer in March, posted the apology for the recent upheaval that has seen volunteers clash with corporate officials on one of Reddit’s message boards.
The controversy started on July 2 when Reddit dismissed Victoria Taylor, a popular staffer who coordinated the hugely successful “Ask Me Anything” Q&A sessions with public figures. It escalated when moderators protested Taylor’s outing by cutting off user participation to some subreddits, as the San Francisco-based site’s topical message boards are known.”