Someone mentioned 27 days of Reddit server time was roughly $700. If this were true then the article is not newsworthy.
Exactly. Even if it was more, the article seems to be extremely eager to blame reddit with excessive maliciousness just cause reddit deleted the subreddit after 6 days and not immediately. Any regular site member knows that any subreddit that violates the rules is given one and only one warning. Once TheFappening released all pics of all celebs on the first day, nobody was sure that one of them was a minor. A day later reddit gave the warning, and all of the minor celebrity's pics were "more or less" removed. Aside from the minor's nudes thing, so far the reason for which the subreddit was banned aren't part of reddit's policies, which is probably why they decided to let it run until they started having legal issues. What here is so malicious that it suddenly makes reddit worthy of an article-full of criticism on a major tech magazine? I don't know.