any idea what AC's reddit account is? I heard that she had already been moderating multiple subs
Reddit is banning any Aimee Challenor mention. UK public figure and Reddit admin
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Re: Reddit is banning any Aimee Challenor mention. UK public figure and Reddit admin
#62Earlier quoted context omitted.
> The Streisand effect is a social phenomenon that occurs when an attempt to hide, remove, or censor information has the unintended consequence of further publicizing that information https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Streisand_effect Edit: added quote.
I wonder if her name will be remembered for the effect longer than for her celebrity.
Barbara who?
Edit: seriously, I couldn't tell you what she's done. Sing? Movies? Both?
Re: Reddit is banning any Aimee Challenor mention. UK public figure and Reddit admin
#63Earlier quoted context omitted.
Some media should be suppressed and some media shouldn't be. The "gender critical" subreddit for example was full of hatred for trans people like myself. I don't believe that exercising your power to suppress something you don't like is inherently good or bad. It obviously depends on the contents of what is being suppressed.
Political/social criticism should not be mislabeled as "hate". Trans-related issues are extremely complex no matter what anyone's personal POV might be, and keeping a critical attitude is entirely legitimate.
The specific policy and political recommendations of the people on the gender critical subreddit are very transphobic, and not even in a nuanced way.
Fuck the meta level. I'm only interested in engaging with specifics.
Re: Reddit is banning any Aimee Challenor mention. UK public figure and Reddit admin
#64Reddit is crazy when it comes to anything trans related. Any comment mildly oppositional to the dominant trans agenda and belief system results in a ban. This is what happens when you hire ideological extremists with victim complexes to try to prove you're inclusive.
Trans is for Reddit what nuclear energy is for HN. Anything negative about these two issues will quickly get you downvoted, flagged and banned on the respective forum.
I don't see the need to say anything negative about trans people, it feels very similar to anti-gay rhetoric and talking points of the past. It's not contributing or helping, and actually causes a lot of harm.
Re: Reddit is banning any Aimee Challenor mention. UK public figure and Reddit admin
#65Identity politics has become a shield and weapon for bad behavior - how dare you question me you must be a bigot. Whoever can gain the public’s attention first controls the narrative.
Identity, status and standing has always been a shield or weapon for bad behaviour, just look at the kind of abuse scandals the church got and still gets away with. It's more like we've just expanded the grifting privileges to more groups
Re: Reddit is banning any Aimee Challenor mention. UK public figure and Reddit admin
#66Earlier quoted context omitted.
> The Streisand effect is a social phenomenon that occurs when an attempt to hide, remove, or censor information has the unintended consequence of further publicizing that information https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Streisand_effect Edit: added quote.
I wonder if her name will be remembered for the effect longer than for her celebrity.
It's already happened, I had no idea Barbara Streisand was a person, but I have heard of the Streisand effect
Re: Reddit is banning any Aimee Challenor mention. UK public figure and Reddit admin
#67Wouldn't ppl simply use an alternative like "one who cannot be mentioned
Re: Reddit is banning any Aimee Challenor mention. UK public figure and Reddit admin
#68Identity politics has become a shield and weapon for bad behavior - how dare you question me you must be a bigot. Whoever can gain the public’s attention first controls the narrative.
What is the connection to identity politics here? I am missing it.
Re: Reddit is banning any Aimee Challenor mention. UK public figure and Reddit admin
#69This sounds a bit like an extreme form of the EU's "right to be forgotten" law. The post made it sound like there was a consensus of Reddit admins who were behind the decision, but to me it sounds like this person was hired as an admin and immediately searched their name and banned anyone who appeared in the results. The worst part is that this may have gone unnoticed except that one of the people was a moderator of…
This degree of censorship used to be noteworthy enough to find the front page of the site. The people who know about this censorship on reddit will be in the minority.
Re: Reddit is banning any Aimee Challenor mention. UK public figure and Reddit admin
#70Earlier quoted context omitted.
Some media should be suppressed and some media shouldn't be. The "gender critical" subreddit for example was full of hatred for trans people like myself. I don't believe that exercising your power to suppress something you don't like is inherently good or bad. It obviously depends on the contents of what is being suppressed.
Political/social criticism should not be mislabeled as "hate". Trans-related issues are extremely complex no matter what anyone's personal POV might be, and keeping a critical attitude is entirely legitimate.
Is it fair to criticize people for being gay too? I just don't see the points of these arguments.
Thought people on this site "loved discussion". Nope. They love hearing their own opinions, and attacking and downvoting anything that is not conservative.
I'm out.