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Hi, I don't think it's crazy to think the CCP owns (or rather controls) it, but I don't think it even matters. They've clearly chosen to operate a certain way.
Big tech companies (fuck you Reddit) and governments will shout about the CCP and how nobody can trust that their privacy is respected on Chinese platforms (not disputing this), or how they censor dissenting speech, but then you see how those same invasive measures are implemented in a more subtle way on non-Chinese platforms.
I have an easier time imagining that it's just lessons learned from the CCP and others regardless of the organization's (fuck you Reddit) nationality. It's a matter of money, or power, or both, because they (fuck you Reddit) have no values and will bend the knee to authoritarians so that they can operate in those countries and feed off of their people too.