competency of achieving that ban, which was due last week, appears to be lacking given the butthole I recently saw on r/all

I have even seen several assholes on /r/changelog

The reasons why many companies and VC are in UAE is because of tax system, 0%. There are no taxes levied by the Federal Government on income or wealth of companies and individuals. https://santandertrade.com/en/portal/establish-overseas/united-arab-emirates/tax-system

Reddit got $250+ million from these four:

--- Vy Capital (yes based in UAE)

—Tencent Holdings is a Chinese multinational technology conglomerate holding company. Headquarters, Tencent Seafront Towers (also known as Tencent Binhai Mansion) are based in the Nanshan District of Shenzhen.

Founders:

Ma Huateng

• Zhang Zhidong
• Xu Chenye
• Chen Yidan
• Zeng Liqing

Key People:

• Ma Huateng (chairman, CEO)
• Martin Lau (president)

Tencent owns Riots Games 100% stake https://www.polygon.com/2015/12/16/10326320/riot-games-now-owned-entirely-by-tencent

and owns Epic Games 40% http://fortune.com/2018/08/30/chinas-tencent-folds-yet-another-video-game-company-into-its-empire/

In addition to all these, they now own some stakes in Spotify, Warner Music, Paradox Interactive, Discord, Roblox....

—Sequoia Capital (American venture capital firm. The firm is headquartered in Menlo Park, California)

—Andreessen Horowitz (US)

Lol I wonder is because I use third party apps and the old.reddit version on desktop with adblockers on both, but I see porn all the time on /r/all and zero ads.