Reddit CEO admits to altering user comments that were critical of him

Not surprising at all.

Why? Would you add some context to your comment?

Reddit is known for censoring subreddits the admins do not like or when they're involved in some drama, they have a specific algorithm to filter out Trump's subreddit from /r/all[1][2], the default subs are strictly aligned with the admins' political views, and recently the CEO mocked Facebook's knowledge of their users data saying that at Reddit they know not only what one publicly speaks (such as in Facebook), but also their users "darkest secrets" (in an interview about advertising on Reddit).

[1] https://voat.co/v/MeanwhileOnReddit/1373659 [2] https://www.reddit.com/r/shittychangelog/comments/59s3ao/red...

> Reddit is known for censoring subreddits the admins do not like

r/The_Donald mods were censoring all comments against Donald Trump (hence why they didn't reach r/all)

> the CEO mocked Facebook's knowledge of their users data saying that at Reddit they know not only what one publicly speaks (such as in Facebook), but also their users "darkest secrets" (in an interview about advertising on Reddit).

It was clearly a joke taken out of context from conspiracy theorist.

Moderators can run their subreddits however they see fit. They're the ones who create the rules and they're the ones that enforce the rules, as long as they don't break the rules of reddit itself. Admins, on the other hand, should not favor one subreddit over the other.

Why do you make that distinction? AFAIK reddit is not a free speech platform.