Tim Culpan, Columnist

Redditors Not Happy About a China-Based Investment in Reddit

Passionate discussion about Tencent’s backing is just the stuff that ignites this social media site. A small investment won’t change that.

February 12, 2019 at 4:37 AM UTC

Tim Culpan is a former Bloomberg Opinion columnist covering technology in Asia. Previously, he was a technology reporter for Bloomberg News.

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What better place to highlight China’s increasingly harsh censorship than “the front page of the internet.”

Reddit Inc.’s decision to allow Tencent Holdings Ltd. onto its shareholder list has the U.S. bulletin-board social-media site aflame with criticism, backlash and Winnie the Pooh memes.