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I'm still surprised that Reddit avoided a major scandal over the Ghislaine Maxwell situation. It's clear that they have serious ethical/integrity issues yet hav
by phpnode 6y ago
I'm still surprised that Reddit avoided a major scandal over the Ghislaine Maxwell situation. It's clear that they have serious ethical/integrity issues yet have avoided the kind of criticism that FB and Twitter get, despite arguably wielding more power. I wonder if this is partly because a lot of the community call themselves "redditors" and therefore interpret criticism of the platform as a criticism of the community. No one would call themselves a twitterer or a facebooker
- Tenoke 6y agoI admit, I didn't believe /u/maxwellhill was Ghislaine but they still haven't posted since her arrest and it's been barely mentioned given how high-profile of a case it is.
- lamontcg 6y agoSo they haven't posted since they started getting massive amounts of online harassment? Go figure.
- Tenoke 6y agoMaxwellhill was super profilic and definitely got harrassed occasionally in all those years. Stopping exactly when she was arrested and making 0 comments and posts for 8 months since is extremely unusual especially as people forgot about it quick and given that if they were posting there'd be way less reason to suspect them or harass them.
- belltaco 6y agoI don't get why it'd be a major scandal for Reddit even if u/maxwellhill was Ghislaine. They were not a Reddit employee, just a community moderator. Would HN be responsible if famous person X was secretly posting on HN? Do people expect Reddit to dox everyone posting or moderating on their platform and then publicize the results?
- phpnode 6y agoI'm not sure I want to list the reasons it is bad here because the subject has been painted as a conspiracy theory and YC is obviously interested in Reddit. But the gist is that they knew who she was,she used her substantial mod power to bury news related to herself and JE, and then when her identity was exposed Reddit used Reddit to bury that story to prevent a scandal.
- lamontcg 6y agoAlternatively, reddit knows who they are, knows that he isn't Gislaine and any burying of the story is being done to prevent online harassment.