Not negotiating on 3rd-party app charges: Reddit CEO despite protest

If you hopped on Reddit to scroll through your favorite forums this week, you may have encountered private or restricted messages. That’s because thousands of subreddits chose to go dark in an ongoing protest over the company’s plan to start charging certain third-party developers to access the site’s data.

But Reddit’s CEO Steve Huffman told The Associated Press he’s not backing off.

Protest and dissent is important, Huffman said. The problem with this one is it’s not going to change anything because we made a business decision that we’re not negotiating on.