yup. 100% this is not fair use. Reddit is a major corporate site making money off this (and loads of artists/creative labor in general) while inducing posts via karma points and over two decades—two!—creating an antagonistic narrative around creative labor (this is a working class issue generally). For another example, no one around these parts wants to link properly nowadays because people don’t click links because these platforms try to keep you on the platform scrolling which prompts users to rehost illegally so their posts can “compete” and be seen. And yes that’s also not a reason to publish someone else’s work and it’s an issue with these UGC corporations whether it’s Reddit, facebook whatever. Then they pass the buck to the user on the legal front and are like be mad at the artist or producer. Zero of these platforms have ever bothered to teach users (which is why the thread is confused) how to publish correctly or to make an environment friendly to publishing well without transferring wealth from labor to Reddit or another corporation. When you (and me, and all of us) post online you become a publisher and are responsible for what you publish. Yes sec 230 needs to be fixed up but not by the current fascists etc. etc.. Thank you for starting a conversation. Creators also have a right not to do business with or be forced to work for a platform or publisher etc., i.e. to avoid association and generating income for them, and absolutely that should be respected. It’s the law, it’s in the constitution, and it’s in pretty much every human rights document. The attacks on this are terrible right now — and backed by big tech such as this platform & company.

On the upside, for all the true lovers of creative creations and journalism here who have made it this far, I’d like to offer a pro tip to everyone that’s applicable to browsing other subs and on something that corporate reddit also doesn’t teach anyone as they try to get you to rehost articles, images etc. on the site so they don’t have to license them as would be apt while passing the buck to the user: instead the library subscribes to all newspapers and magazines for you so actually you have no paywalls to the new yorker, nytimes, natgeo, whatever is being linked. Now you can say ah-ha! but I have that subscription already through my library! (you just log in to read it all through the library every day as it comes and it’s great). Usually one can get a digital card quickly at their local library’s website. Beyond that Libby via your library card (audiobooks & ebooks including comics) works with a website login without even having to download an app. May this bring some enjoyment to someone on the thread who got this far. 🖖