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Re: Reddit is banning any Aimee Challenor mention. UK public figure and Reddit admin

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Post by Mediterraneo10 »

kmonsen wrote: post #33

This is not doxing in any way is it? The person is using their own name, is a public figure, posted about their activities on twitter and can be easily Googled. Would reddit ban anything about this if the person in question was not an employee? I understand the concern about harassment, but should anyone be able to get off reddit if they want to? Let's say Roger Stone wants no mention of himself on reddit, should he…

It could be that some discussion of this person was linking to a Substack article with investigative reporting into this person’s kinks and polyamory, using their forum history over the last decade in a way that Reddit might see as doxxing.

Re: Reddit is banning any Aimee Challenor mention. UK public figure and Reddit admin

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Post by HideousKojima »

phpnode wrote: post #7
spamizbad wrote: post #6

I don't get it - why are people angry with her over her father's actions?

they're angry with her over her actions, it's separate from her father's crimes.

Also their fiance has has written some erotic fiction that is almost as disturbing as what their father did

Re: Reddit is banning any Aimee Challenor mention. UK public figure and Reddit admin

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Post by goldenManatee »

jandrese wrote: post #60

This 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…

You can request/demand to be forgotten by services, but a reasonable person can’t expect other people to forget them just because they asked services to do the same. Stored data and human memories are not the same thing lol

Re: Reddit is banning any Aimee Challenor mention. UK public figure and Reddit admin

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Post by outworlder »

eplanit wrote: post #11

Not dystopian sounding at all: Please do not name this individual, at all. Doing so may result in your account being banned by the admins. Please do not ask further questions about this, as doing so may result in your account being banned by the admins. Please do not discuss this incident on Reddit publicly or privately (e.g. on private subreddits and/or in private messages, chat etc.), as doing so may result in your…

> or in private messages

We do know that there's nothing 'private' about any social media platforms, but some people still believe that to be the case.

Now they are blatantly publicizing that private chats are being read.

Anyone remembers the outrage when gmail was analyzing emails to provide ads? What happened to that?

Re: Reddit is banning any Aimee Challenor mention. UK public figure and Reddit admin

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Post by zozbot234 »

howinteresting wrote: post #63
zozbot234 wrote: post #59

Earlier quoted context omitted.

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.

> The specific policy and political recommendations of the people on the gender critical subreddit are very transphobic

There's plenty of actual transphobia occurring, out there in the real world - as in, real hateful violence and oppression being done to people who identify as trans or even just behave in non-gender-typical ways. So you're quite factually wrong about this.

Gender-critical feminists do not even register on the radar.

Re: Reddit is banning any Aimee Challenor mention. UK public figure and Reddit admin

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Post by ping_pong »

spamizbad wrote: post #6

I don't get it - why are people angry with her over her father's actions?

Her father is a convicted child rapist, this is what is causing the uproad.

https://www.bbc.com/news/uk-england-coventry-warwickshire-45...

Re: Reddit is banning any Aimee Challenor mention. UK public figure and Reddit admin

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Post by i_haz_rabies »

howinteresting wrote: post #49
debacle wrote: post #46

Earlier quoted context omitted.

History teaches us that moral authoritarianism, properly executed, is the stuff of nightmares. Society should progress, but not "at any cost" or "by any means."

Not at any cost, but this cost is plainly acceptable.

"plainly" is an extremely loaded word in this context.

Re: Reddit is banning any Aimee Challenor mention. UK public figure and Reddit admin

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Post by thefz »

debacle wrote: post #24

My interaction with reddit is now nearly zero. I turned on ad block some time ago. I will visit /r/todayilearned in the early morning while laying in bed, and I will use subreddits to research purchases. It is much more satisfying to remove /r/all from the reddit equation. I can't even visit my local subreddit anymore because the amount of censorship by moderators is staggering. The dark marketing, once you can see i…

I know it sounds trite, but most small-ish subreddit communities are still sane. Avoid the main ones like the plague though.

Re: Reddit is banning any Aimee Challenor mention. UK public figure and Reddit admin

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Post by [deleted] »

eplanit wrote: post #11

Not dystopian sounding at all: Please do not name this individual, at all. Doing so may result in your account being banned by the admins. Please do not ask further questions about this, as doing so may result in your account being banned by the admins. Please do not discuss this incident on Reddit publicly or privately (e.g. on private subreddits and/or in private messages, chat etc.), as doing so may result in your…

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