Good observations. Questions to ask about them:

Can you be successful without acquiring some form of power, and can you receive that power and not work to retain it? In other words, how inevitable is the process that affected the extreme socialism of the early USSR and the extreme libertarianism of the early internet?

If this was triggered by the recent incidents at reddit, are they really relating to commercial / advertising pressure, or are they an attempt to use the power that the controllers of reddit have gained, towards what they see as worthwhile ends?