Complete non-answers through and through, with a side of throwing as much shade at /u/iamthatis as possible without explicitly naming him. I bet legal has had a chat with him about that particular issue.
They did walked back the stuff at least for accessibility apps. Legal must have told them to walk it back because of the ADA. But that was announced a few days before spez's AMA.
Gotta say, if Reddit is really gearing up for an IPO this feels like the kind of behavior investors would be really suspicious of. Especially since Christian (Apollo dev) was well within his rights as a Canadian to record the conversation, and release it as evidence that he's being slandered and nothing spez is saying can be trusted.
Can't wait to see how potential investors in a public company would handle him as CEO. Have a gut feeling he'd get ousted before long because he's clearly incapable of talking to legal and shutting up.
@crashdoom ok so. There was an insightful comment somewhere in there which pointed out that the thread is probably going to be used by Reddit as evidence in a possible future investors vs Reddit lawsuit, where they'll say "we tried our best, but the users were hostile and unreasonable!"