It's because kbin has a lot of local content and users.

What did Ubuntu do to violate your privacy?

Wow, this is very nice.

Wow, this is very nice.

Did you? Who is going to be torturing me for eternity if I don't love myself?

Really? Lied to you?

Where can I get help with kbin? Is there a magazine for support?

What does it mean to be "weirdly anti US"?

Does anybody even use google sites?

Every business has overhead and infrastructure is usually the least of that overhead. They probably had lots of people working in that division and if it's just a redundancy at this point might as well sell it off and get some cash out of the deal.

So what would happen if the mods refused to moderate and let anybody post anything they want? It's not like they are getting paid and reddit isn't going to pay anybody to moderate.