No, not JPP.
Reddit.
Note: If you're a 70 to 80 year old DEMOCRAT, don't bother boring me with "Reddit who?" bullshit.
As of February 2021, Reddit ranked as the 18th-most-visited website in the world and 7th most-visited website in the US, according to Alexa Internet.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Reddit
Massive subs all go private to protest Reddit’s hiring of a pedophile enabler
Here's the TL/DR version for autists:
Hundreds of Reddit communities locked down today to protest Reddit’s handling of a controversy involving former UK politician Aimee Knight.
More than 200 subreddits set their status to private, including the 27 million-member forum r/Music, as well as large boards dedicated to Apple Mac computers and the games Among Us and Pokémon Go.
Moderators are demanding a statement about Knight, whom Reddit apparently hired in recent months.
Knight was previously suspended from the Green Party after selecting her father — later convicted of violent sexual assault on a child — as her election agent in a 2017 political campaign.
As Reddit moderator Blank-Cheque’s post outlines, the current controversy exploded yesterday, when Reddit banned a UK politics subreddit moderator for linking to an article that mentioned Knight.
Reddit reversed the ban and posted an explanatory statement, saying it was fighting a harassment campaign against an trans employee. (The post didn’t mention Knight by name, and an administrator wrote that they were “unable to comment on specific employment details.”)
“Earlier this month, a Reddit employee was the target of harassment and doxxing,” the post said. “Reddit activated standard processes to protect the employee from such harassment, including initiating an automated moderation rule to prevent personal information from being shared. The moderation rule was too broad, and this week it incorrectly suspended a moderator who posted content that included personal information.” Reddit didn’t respond to an email requesting comment.
Reddit said that “our intent was never to remove any and all mentions of this admin’s name.”
But Reddit’s statement failed to satisfy several moderators, who noted that Knight had occupied a public political position and the article hadn’t linked her name with her employment at Reddit. “You’ve completely ignored the real issue: the person you have hired is, at best, sympathetic to pedophilia,” one popular comment reads. “I don’t condone doxxing virtually anyone, but what you’re describing isn’t doxxing. It’s posting the name of a public figure.”
Knight was a Green Party spokesperson and a candidate for deputy leadership. But she was suspended in 2018 amid an inquiry involving her father David Challenor — who was convicted that year of raping and torturing a 10-year-old child. Knight had selected Challenor as her election agent after he had been arrested and charged with the crime in 2016. “On reflection, I can understand that it was unacceptable for me to appoint my dad as my election agent when he had been arrested. I can now understand the potential risks of that decision,” she wrote after the suspension.
An independent report concluded that as a result of Knight and other members’ actions, “someone who had committed serious sexual offenses was given roles of responsibility within the Green Party during a period of almost two years.” Soon after, in 2019, Knight was also suspended by the Liberal DEMOCRAT party when her now-husband posted comments about having fantasies involving sex with children on Twitter. Knight said that the account had been hacked.
https://www.theverge.com/2021/3/24/22348255/reddit-moderator-blackout-protest-aimee-knight-uk-green-party
As part of their duties as a Reddit employee, the admin in question had been in charge of reviewing content for minor sexualization, and explicitly refused to take down content containing sexualization of children.
She then threatened to ban users submitting the reports for "report abuse."
David Challenor was arrested for raping and torturing a 10-year-old girl in 2016.
He was convicted by a court two years later and sentenced to more than 20 years in prison.
Around the time of his arrest, his daughter, Aimee (Challenor) Knight was a rising star in British politics. Her father’s charges ultimately derailed her political career. An inquiry by the Green Party deemed that she’d failed to properly alert them to the charges and made a serious error of judgment by having her father run her campaigns after his arrest.
https://www.dailydot.com/debug/reddit-subs-private-admin-suspending-mentions/
As of this evening, Reddit management has released the following statement:
We would like to give you all an update on the recent issues that have transpired concerning a specific Reddit employee, as well as provide you with context into actions that we took to prevent doxxing and harassment.
As of today, the employee in question is no longer employed by Reddit. We built a relationship with her first as a mod and then through her contractor work on RPAN. We did not adequately vet her background before formally hiring her.
We’ve put significant effort into improving how we handle doxxing and harassment, and this employee was the subject of both. In this case, we over-indexed on protection, which had serious consequences in terms of enforcement actions.
On March 9th, we added extra protections for this employee, including actioning content that mentioned the employee’s name or shared personal information on third-party sites, which we reserve for serious cases of harassment and doxxing.
On March 22nd, a news article about this employee was posted by a mod of r/ukpolitics.
The article was removed and the submitter banned by the aforementioned rules. When contacted by the moderators of r/ukpolitics, we reviewed the actions, and reversed the ban on the moderator, and we informed the r/ukpolitics moderation team that we had restored the mod.
We updated our rules to flag potential harassment for human review.
Debate and criticism have always been and always will be central to conversation on Reddit—including discussion about public figures and Reddit itself—as long as they are not used as vehicles for harassment. Mentioning a public figure’s name should not get you banned.
We care deeply for Reddit and appreciate that you do too. We understand the anger and confusion about these issues and their bigger implications. The employee is no longer with Reddit, and we’ll be evolving a number of relevant internal policies.
We did not operate to our own standards here. We will do our best to do better for you.
Reddit.
Note: If you're a 70 to 80 year old DEMOCRAT, don't bother boring me with "Reddit who?" bullshit.
As of February 2021, Reddit ranked as the 18th-most-visited website in the world and 7th most-visited website in the US, according to Alexa Internet.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Reddit
Massive subs all go private to protest Reddit’s hiring of a pedophile enabler
Here's the TL/DR version for autists:
Hundreds of Reddit communities locked down today to protest Reddit’s handling of a controversy involving former UK politician Aimee Knight.
More than 200 subreddits set their status to private, including the 27 million-member forum r/Music, as well as large boards dedicated to Apple Mac computers and the games Among Us and Pokémon Go.
Moderators are demanding a statement about Knight, whom Reddit apparently hired in recent months.
Knight was previously suspended from the Green Party after selecting her father — later convicted of violent sexual assault on a child — as her election agent in a 2017 political campaign.
As Reddit moderator Blank-Cheque’s post outlines, the current controversy exploded yesterday, when Reddit banned a UK politics subreddit moderator for linking to an article that mentioned Knight.
Reddit reversed the ban and posted an explanatory statement, saying it was fighting a harassment campaign against an trans employee. (The post didn’t mention Knight by name, and an administrator wrote that they were “unable to comment on specific employment details.”)
“Earlier this month, a Reddit employee was the target of harassment and doxxing,” the post said. “Reddit activated standard processes to protect the employee from such harassment, including initiating an automated moderation rule to prevent personal information from being shared. The moderation rule was too broad, and this week it incorrectly suspended a moderator who posted content that included personal information.” Reddit didn’t respond to an email requesting comment.
Reddit said that “our intent was never to remove any and all mentions of this admin’s name.”
But Reddit’s statement failed to satisfy several moderators, who noted that Knight had occupied a public political position and the article hadn’t linked her name with her employment at Reddit. “You’ve completely ignored the real issue: the person you have hired is, at best, sympathetic to pedophilia,” one popular comment reads. “I don’t condone doxxing virtually anyone, but what you’re describing isn’t doxxing. It’s posting the name of a public figure.”
Knight was a Green Party spokesperson and a candidate for deputy leadership. But she was suspended in 2018 amid an inquiry involving her father David Challenor — who was convicted that year of raping and torturing a 10-year-old child. Knight had selected Challenor as her election agent after he had been arrested and charged with the crime in 2016. “On reflection, I can understand that it was unacceptable for me to appoint my dad as my election agent when he had been arrested. I can now understand the potential risks of that decision,” she wrote after the suspension.
An independent report concluded that as a result of Knight and other members’ actions, “someone who had committed serious sexual offenses was given roles of responsibility within the Green Party during a period of almost two years.” Soon after, in 2019, Knight was also suspended by the Liberal DEMOCRAT party when her now-husband posted comments about having fantasies involving sex with children on Twitter. Knight said that the account had been hacked.
https://www.theverge.com/2021/3/24/22348255/reddit-moderator-blackout-protest-aimee-knight-uk-green-party
As part of their duties as a Reddit employee, the admin in question had been in charge of reviewing content for minor sexualization, and explicitly refused to take down content containing sexualization of children.
She then threatened to ban users submitting the reports for "report abuse."
David Challenor was arrested for raping and torturing a 10-year-old girl in 2016.
He was convicted by a court two years later and sentenced to more than 20 years in prison.
Around the time of his arrest, his daughter, Aimee (Challenor) Knight was a rising star in British politics. Her father’s charges ultimately derailed her political career. An inquiry by the Green Party deemed that she’d failed to properly alert them to the charges and made a serious error of judgment by having her father run her campaigns after his arrest.
https://www.dailydot.com/debug/reddit-subs-private-admin-suspending-mentions/
As of this evening, Reddit management has released the following statement:
We would like to give you all an update on the recent issues that have transpired concerning a specific Reddit employee, as well as provide you with context into actions that we took to prevent doxxing and harassment.
As of today, the employee in question is no longer employed by Reddit. We built a relationship with her first as a mod and then through her contractor work on RPAN. We did not adequately vet her background before formally hiring her.
We’ve put significant effort into improving how we handle doxxing and harassment, and this employee was the subject of both. In this case, we over-indexed on protection, which had serious consequences in terms of enforcement actions.
On March 9th, we added extra protections for this employee, including actioning content that mentioned the employee’s name or shared personal information on third-party sites, which we reserve for serious cases of harassment and doxxing.
On March 22nd, a news article about this employee was posted by a mod of r/ukpolitics.
The article was removed and the submitter banned by the aforementioned rules. When contacted by the moderators of r/ukpolitics, we reviewed the actions, and reversed the ban on the moderator, and we informed the r/ukpolitics moderation team that we had restored the mod.
We updated our rules to flag potential harassment for human review.
Debate and criticism have always been and always will be central to conversation on Reddit—including discussion about public figures and Reddit itself—as long as they are not used as vehicles for harassment. Mentioning a public figure’s name should not get you banned.
We care deeply for Reddit and appreciate that you do too. We understand the anger and confusion about these issues and their bigger implications. The employee is no longer with Reddit, and we’ll be evolving a number of relevant internal policies.
We did not operate to our own standards here. We will do our best to do better for you.