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The Reddit administration continues to make terrible decisions as usual. The site's a far cry from how it was 10 years ago. Perhaps what makes this case most i
by ronsor 6y ago
The Reddit administration continues to make terrible decisions as usual. The site's a far cry from how it was 10 years ago.
Perhaps what makes this case most interesting is they're in a "damned if you do, damned if you don't" situation. If they fire the admin, they'll likely be labeled as *-phobic, but if they don't, they'll likely be branded as pedophile supporters.
- blackearl 6y agoThe idea that this person got through HR without a cursory google search is crazy, or worse, the idea that they hired them knowing their history is frightening. Being trans is not a free pass to be pro-pedophilia and it's absurd that this could be considered a controversial take.
- breakfastduck 6y agoIt's absurd to me that you consider this person to be 'pro-pedophilia' - where on earth do you get that from?
- CodeGlitch 6y agoYou need to do more research around said person. Who they married specifically.
- hi5eyes 6y agoher partner and father are both pedos. 'pro-pedophillia' isn't much of a stretch
- breakfastduck 6y agoHer dad is a pedo so she must be too - good job
- hi5eyes 6y agodoes being pro lgbtq for ex. now imply one is lgbtq? or did i miss something
- mattnewton 6y agoIt wasn't a deal breaker for her to hire him, and it wasn't a deal breaker for her to marry someone who posted about sex with children (though allegedly his account was "hacked"). Look I'm not saying we drive her out of town with pitchforks, just maybe that she isn't the best fit for a public role that involves a lot of judgement about what to allow and what to remove on Reddit. And the reddit posts are alleging that saying so while mentioning her name was enough to ban users to protect her from Doxxing - I get that, the internet mob gets out of hand very quickly. But it seems to have massively backfired here.
- msrenee 6y agoWhat's very concerning to me is this nekosume individual, who appears to be involved with both her and her husband (polyamorously?), who moderates subreddits targeted toward teenagers.
- esja 6y agoTelling lies to protect a horrifically abusive pedophile father and a pedophile husband, just for starters.
- flir 6y agoThere are aspects of this you probably just don't want to delve into. Ignore the people telling you to do research, it's not worth it.
- blackearl 6y agoIf you marry someone who "...under the account name Nathaniel Knight said: “I fantasise about children having sex, sometimes with adults, sometimes with other children, sometimes kidnapped and forced into bad situations.”" you are pro-pedophile. https://www.thetimes.co.uk/article/lib-dems-suspend-trans-campaigner-over-tweets-jcsg0tdtq https://www.thetimes.co.uk/article/lib-dems-suspend-trans-ca...
- CodeGlitch 6y agoIt's probably a diversity hire. "We need more trans people to tick a box".
- shakezula 6y agoThis is a pretty cold take, imo. There are plenty of ways shady people slip through systems and background checks without any malice assigned to the process. That being said, the real issue here is how Reddit is covering up and stonewalling the situation. Classic Reddit to fumble the ball at every given opportunity.
- viklove 6y agoPretty much, and now if they fire her they open themselves up to a potential media hit piece about how they're transphobic. Really put themselves in a shitty position, didn't they?
- lagadu 6y agoIt's a pretty hard decision: on one hand you can let it continue and potentially make take some reputation damage, on the other hand you can try to silence but there's a chance that the Streisand effect will make the situation worse. Hard call to make really, as by it's very nature we don't know how often a silencing situation triggers the effect.
- hctaw 6y ago10 years ago pedophilia was prominent on the site, alongside numerous hateful subreddits and questionable content. It was like 4chan with worse moderation due to scale. Porn barely cracks /r/all anymore.
- Workaccount2 6y agoporn is no longer allowed (well, cannot reach) on /r/all
- mikey_p 6y agoSpecifically subreddits marked NSFW aren't allowed on /r/all. NSFW posts from regular subs still get through
- worker767424 6y agoThere was /r/jailbait. There was also the time the CEO defended /r/thefappening and copyright infringement. It got awkward when some of the girls in the pictures said they were minors when the pics were taken. Oops. Not CP, but there was also /r/creepshots. Ironically, that was more legal than /r/thefappening.
- doublerabbit 6y agoOnly from last week where they decided to hide NSFW posts from /r/all
- 8fGTBjZxBcHq 6y agoThis old stuff by internet standards but historically the reddit administration has been uncomfortably friendly to pedophiles on its site. It, for YEARS, had at least a dozen (public!) subs that were explicitly for exchanging sexual photos of underaged people and it was an open secret that DMs with power users there was a way to access actual child porn. They gave a site-wide award to a power-mod who managed a huge number of these and other awful subs. They finally banned the subreddits when it got media attention. People on the site had been calling for them to do it for years.
- DC1350 6y agoAlso that tweet by former CEO Ellen Pao where she admitted to attending parties with Ghislaine Maxwell while knowing about the pedo sex trafficking https://twitter.com/ekp/status/1280020996460670976 https://twitter.com/ekp/status/1280020996460670976