[UPDATE] Major Reddit communities going private in mass protest

[ToboRobot]

Reddit has become a cesspool.  I deleted my account today.

[Arika]

1 hour ago, Arika S said:

Good. But i think this actually shows they do NO background checks. her history of why she was removed from 2 parties isn't exactly hidden

in fact, they did do a background check on her...so they fucking lied and contradicted themselves in the same post

 

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 We did not adequately vet her background before formally hiring her.

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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.

 

Why did she specifically need extra protection if you didn't know what her history was? what exactly were these extra protections if not to avoid anything about her history from being posted?

[Derkoli]

7 minutes ago, Arika S said:

Why did she specifically need extra protection if you didn't know what her history was? what exactly were these extra protections if not to avoid anything about her history from being posted?

It's all very hypocritical. They stated they had no previous knowledge of her past, relating to a certain topic that I think any respectable human being would despise.

 

But if they had no knowledge, then the influx of comments about her past surely would've given some sort of PR team at Reddit the idea to maybe, just maybe do a quick google search to confirm the comments, or prove them to be wrong. But no. They decide to give her special "protection" over something they claim they have no knowledge of. Very fishy.

 

I suspect u/spez has ceased to hire her on the team due to the lack of adsense from the subreddits that were set to private, not because of her very despicable past.

[Guest]

1 hour ago, Yeroh said:

1 hour ago, EjectedCasings said:

Nobody said Redditors were smart. I've seen some pretty strange views on the platform. I'm honestly glad that I left pretty much every subreddit I once followed. The memes were dogshit, and the politics were supremely annoying. Poor content and a community of questionable IQ.

 

 

39 minutes ago, Andreas Lilja said:

Idk because they killed the competition?

 

There are great subreddits out there.

Reddit offers a forum for basically any topic since users can create (and moderate) them themselves. And since traditional forums are more or less dead in an age where content becoming more and more concentrated on a handful of sites, it shouldn't come as a suprise that people will use reddit to follow and discuss their hobbies in place of what would've previously been various different sites. It's convenient, because once you have one account, you can sign up for all of the forums that you're interested in. While you might have other options in some areas, such as the LTT forum for hardware or PC-related topics, that's not really the case for every topic. In these cases, reddit can be quite useful.

Sry for the quote mess up....

 

I do see reddit posts that pertain to my tech searches and have read some. A lot of good information, but most of all is from a forum or you'll find links from posters to tech forums.

 

The rest I can understand, specific topics....

 

I always thought of reddit like a forum based facebook or MiSpace.

[Bombastinator]

1 hour ago, gabrielcarvfer said:

Multiple users got jailed, including one of their partners. They ignored reports of child porn and child grooming. They only started cracking down on that after FBI started an investigation and people pressured them.

So Multiple users of Reddit were pedophiles and went to jail.  So that makes the corporation that runs Reddit (not sure which one it is)  child molesters?  It could make them arguably complicit I guess.  Not assuming that a site as open and random as Reddit is going to have pedophiles or any other sort of criminal for that matter on it is kind of negligent.  By that logic they would also be shop lifters and murderers and streakers and who knows what else.

[Moonzy]

Idk, this sorta feels like cancel culture

 

And wanting your employer to dig into your past is... Hmm... IDK how I feel about that tbh

 

Did he/she actually do anything as a reddit employee though? Or was she just cancelled based on her past?

[Bombastinator]

1 minute ago, Moonzy said:

Idk, this sorta feels like cancel culture

 

And wanting your employer to dig into your past is... Hmm... IDK how I feel about that tbh

 

Did he/she actually do anything as a reddit employee though? Or was she just cancelled based on her past?

I dunno.  There is apparently some sort of political factor here I’m not aware of.  Given that who knows?

[WkdPaul]

22 minutes ago, Bombastinator said:

So Multiple users of Reddit were pedophiles and went to jail.  So that makes the corporation that runs Reddit (not sure which one it is)  child molesters?  It could make them arguably complicit I guess.  Not assuming that a site as open and random as Reddit is going to have pedophiles or any other sort of criminal for that matter on it is kind of negligent.  By that logic they would also be shop lifters and murderers and streakers and who knows what else.

I think you need to re-read his posts, he never said the corporations were child molesters, only that there were pedos at Discord HQ ... 

 

 

1 minute ago, Moonzy said:

*snip*

She covered for a child molester (her father, but still, she knew of his crimes and supplied a false name so he could be hired as a campaign aid for her), and her husband is a self admitted pedo and has (allegedly) written stories featuring minors. This isn't in her past, it's stuff that was recent.

[Bombastinator]

8 minutes ago, wkdpaul said:

I think you need to re-read his posts, he never said the corporations were child molesters, only that there were pedos at Discord HQ ... 

 

 

She covered for a child molester (her father, but still, she knew of his crimes and supplied a false name so he could be hired as a campaign aid for her), and her husband is a self admitted pedo and has (allegedly) written stories featuring minors. This isn't in her past, it's stuff that was recent.

I was replying only to the argument made in the one post.  It’s entirely possible that facts on the ground are different  than were stated.  That’s actually pretty normal. 

[Moonzy]

16 minutes ago, wkdpaul said:

She covered for a child molester (her father, but still, she knew of his crimes and supplied a false name so he could be hired as a campaign aid for her)

So, that's her father

 

16 minutes ago, wkdpaul said:

husband is a self admitted pedo and has (allegedly) written stories featuring minors.

I see I see, 2 things:

1) did her fiancé actually committed any crime or it's just fantasizing? Which , based on your 'allegedly', might not have happened at all?

2) again, not her herself doing it

 

I can see where the outrage is coming from, but I'm trying to understand this from both point of view

[WkdPaul]

10 minutes ago, Moonzy said:

So, that's her father

 

I see I see, 2 things:

1) did her fiancé actually committed any crime or it's just fantasizing? Which , based on your 'allegedly', might've not have happened at all?

No idea if it's legal or not, I know that in Canada that's illegal and people have went to jail for 'production of child porn' for writing such stories. Like I said, don't know about the UK.

 

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2) again, not her herself doing it

 

I can see where the outrage is coming from, but I'm trying to understand this from both point of view

Just to be clear, her supplying a false name so that she can hire her dad as a campaign manager could be illegal ( I haven't read on this yet and I'm only going from information supplied by proxy).

 

Point is, Reddit has a history of catering and defending pedos, and she has a history of being a pedo supporter, not something very popular. Googling her name uncovers a lot of articles about her being kicked out of 2 parties for all of this.

[Moonzy]

12 minutes ago, wkdpaul said:

No idea if it's legal or not, I know that in Canada that's illegal and people have went to jail for 'production of child porn' for writing such stories. Like I said, don't know about the UK.

I did some searching and all I could find was nathaniel knight (the husband) openly admits he fantasize about underaged illicit stuffs, not that he written anything about it, just admitted that he likes it.

 

Disgusting sure, and Aimee knight did defend her husband regarding to this, but doesn't make her a pedophile or signify she's into that sort of things though

Inb4 I get called a pedophile for questioning against cancelling her as if being called a pedophile for owning crypto wasn't enough

 

17 minutes ago, wkdpaul said:

Just to be clear, her supplying a false name so that she can hire her dad as a campaign manager could be illegal ( I haven't read on this yet and I'm only going from information supplied by proxy).

Not too sure about illegal but it sure is deceptive (and dumb, like, very dumb) to try to cover that up while doing something that is based on popularity

 

18 minutes ago, wkdpaul said:

Point is, Reddit has a history of catering and defending pedos, and she has a history of being a pedo supporter, not something very popular.

Fair point

Again, stupid thing to do when you're based off of popularity

[Mling]

oh the P-word thing. The one thing where the left and the right both participate on cancel culture. The one thing where free speech absolutists bend on. I feel sorry for reddit and other parties involved. You dont know about a persons p* until an admission or until a victim comes forward. The important thing going forward is to know that all parties disavowed and canceled at the earliest opportunity.

[Video Beagle]

2 hours ago, Moonzy said:

1) did her fiancé actually committed any crime or it's just fantasizing? Which , based on your 'allegedly', might not have happened at all?

FTR, she claims his account was hacked to say stuff.

 

As for "why they did extra protections for her"that @Arika Sasks about,  because she's a known transwoman and trans right activist. 

 

This whole thing is a mine field that's just going off in a cascade.

[Arika]

1 hour ago, Video Beagle said:

As for "why they did extra protections for her"that @Arika Sasks about,  because she's a known transwoman and trans right activist. 

If this was any other website except Reddit, i would accept this explanation, however given Reddit's track record in recent years, I have NO doubt they absolutely knew about her history and decided to try and keep it hidden, it wasn't until a whole bunch of people started to close down their communities that they acted (again).

 

Either it was malicious and they knew, or the Reddit staff and recruitment people have incompetence well beyond anything that could be deemed "normal". And honestly, neither of these 2 options make reddit look good in ANY light what so ever, I don't actually know which one would be worse.

 

[PCGuy_5960]

4 hours ago, Moonzy said:

Did he/she actually do anything as a reddit employee though? Or was she just cancelled based on her past?

Cancel culture is stupid, but I wouldn't say this is an example of that. If they were cancelled for posting a controversial/edgy post on social media, I'd agree, but this person (at least from the looks of it) defended and covered not one, but two pedos, this isn't just completely immoral, but I'm pretty sure that it is actually illegal too.

[Taf the Ghost]

Reddit, like Prisons, can at least agree on one thing that's beyond the pale.

 

That said, there's no way the local staff didn't know when this person was hired. One should always keep an eye on such things with companies. It normally means someone hired them in, which generally means the firing is to cover that set of decision making. Granted, they've already started the early parts of a direct normalization campaign. Beware of letter M.

[Master Disaster]

Never heard of Knight before, after looking at a Wikipedia page I'm glad that's the case.

 

Why would Reddit think its OK to hire someone like that? Its like the asylum are hiring the lunatics to oversee the death sentences.

Edited March 25, 2021 by LogicalDrm

[Moonzy]

1 hour ago, PCGuy_5960 said:

Cancel culture is stupid, but I wouldn't say this is an example of that. If they were cancelled for posting a controversial/edgy post on social media, I'd agree, but this person (at least from the looks of it) defended and covered not one, but two pedos, this isn't just completely immoral, but I'm pretty sure that it is actually illegal too.

Can't say I disagree, but not fully agreeing either

 

How else would they prove that they've changed if no one gave them a chance after that (this applies to their father as well)

 

Albeit doing so with reddit's alleged past based on what I read here isn't the best way to go about it either...

[Tristerin]

Politicians and pedophilia, this is my surprise face:

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

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[WkdPaul]

5 hours ago, Moonzy said:

 not that he written anything about it, just admitted that he likes it.

That's why I put "allegedly", it's been repeated on Reddit but I couldn't find anything concrete about it.

 

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Not too sure about illegal but it sure is deceptive (and dumb, like, very dumb) to try to cover that up while doing something that is based on popularity

Didn't say it was illegal, but that it could be, laws and regulations around political parties are often strict, but seeing as this happened in 2019 and all I could find was that she got kicked out, I'm guessing it's not illegal.

 

Still, it makes sense political parties would want to distance themselves from someone like this, and with Reddit sketchy past regarding cp, they should've known to distance themselves too (lookup the history of the jailbait sub and how the owners at the time actually defended cp on multiple occasions)

[Fasterthannothing]

6 hours ago, Moonzy said:

Idk, this sorta feels like cancel culture

 

And wanting your employer to dig into your past is... Hmm... IDK how I feel about that tbh

 

Did he/she actually do anything as a reddit employee though? Or was she just cancelled based on her past?

I don't like cancel culture at all lots of people have done bad things and have come around or do/done things that you don't allign with, that aren't necessarily bad but rather something you don't like because of your opinion. However this person had terrible connections a sketchy as heck situation and terrible morals. I think the firing was completely justified. However I in no way give Reddit credit for it they would have done nothing if people didn't shut down their subreddits and make sure they did something. 

[Arika]

45 minutes ago, Moonzy said:

How else would they prove that they've changed if no one gave them a chance after that (this applies to their father as well)

i don't exactly have a habit of being lenient on pedophiles or people who defend them or allow such acts to continue.

 

There seems to be accounts where the timeline puts her living in the house WHILE he was torturing the child. sources for which i am absolutely NOT posting here due to the other content within the articles.

 

even if she wasn't she still hired him AFTER he was convicted. i want you to read this:

Twisted pervert abused ten-year-old girl in Coventry 'torture den' attic | The Coventry Observer

 

and tell me if you still think either of them have changed in any meaningful way in such a short period of time, how anyone could even think of defending someone like him, even if it's your own family, brings everything else you do into immediate question.

 

and there is some very disgusting evidence of Aimee's life and some of the other people she associated with prior to her transition and foray into politics that i really wish i didn't read. 

 

There is just too much against her at this point that for MY opinion, she should not be in any position of power ever.

[Bombastinator]

1 minute ago, Arika S said:

i don't exactly have a habit of being lenient on pedophiles or people who defend them or allow such acts to continue.

 

There seems to be accounts where the timeline puts her living in the house WHILE he was torturing the child.

 

even if she wasn't she still hired him AFTER he was convicted. i want you to read this:

Twisted pervert abused ten-year-old girl in Coventry 'torture den' attic | The Coventry Observer

 

and tell me if you still think either of them have changed in any meaningful way in such a short period of time, how anyone could even think of defending someone like him, even if it's your own family, brings everything else you do into immediate question.

 

and there is some very disgusting evidence of Aimee's life and some of the other people she associated with prior to her transition and foray into politics that i really wish i didn't read. 

 

There is just too much against her at this point that for MY opinion, she should not be in any position of power ever.

The most common way to go to prison for Avoidant personality disorder is to be in a house with an abusive person and simply lock up when they do bad things.  Sadly abusive people often associate with avoidant personalities for that reason.

[Taf the Ghost]

5 hours ago, Master Disaster said:

Never heard of Knight before, after looking at a Wikipedia page I'm glad that's the case.

 

 

 

Its like the asylum are hiring the lunatics to oversee the death sentences.

It's perfectly logical when you understand that parts of the staff obviously support this stuff. It also means they have connections to the company, which opens up a lot more questions that this isn't the forum to explore.

Edited March 25, 2021 by LogicalDrm