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Post by meowface »

wcarron wrote: post #369
esja wrote: post #140

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I agree, but a minor nitpick: Aimee was forced out not just for being connected to pedophiles, but also for lying about and/or endorsing them (among other issues). A massive failure of safeguarding from the Greens and Lib Dems, and now from Reddit. It's astonishing to me that a person like this can become an admin on a website used by millions of teenagers. We already know that admins can access private messages and…

I have seen allegations on reddit that Aimee also moderated a number of subreddits, specifically ones pertaining to minors, before, during, and after her fathers' rape and torture of a 10 year old in the house she lived in. Allowing a person who willfully ignored pedophilia and torture be in a position of power near/directly engaging with minors, and then hiring that person, is despicable.

Obviously horrible if true, but what's the evidence?

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Post by [deleted] »

koonsolo wrote: post #434
mam2 wrote: post #203

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I am 100% convinced that the rate of pedophile is higher in: - positions of power (we have had a few in france who were judges / party representatives etC...) - any job close to children, which includes in particular schools, but also.. - church Why ? Because if you woke up tommorow as a pedophile, without any morals, and wanted to maximise the "chances" to satisfy your sexual attraction, where would you go ? Exactly…

I had a colleague with a theory that a lot of pedophiles are really in love with the power aspect. There is no bigger power than that what an adult can have over a child. Both physically and mentally. And therefore, they will try to get those positions where they are in power. I don't know if this was ever investivated, but it makes sense to me. Edit: when you look at the dad in this story, raping and torturing a chi…

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Post by wcarron »

meowface wrote: post #511
wcarron wrote: post #369

Earlier quoted context omitted.

I have seen allegations on reddit that Aimee also moderated a number of subreddits, specifically ones pertaining to minors, before, during, and after her fathers' rape and torture of a 10 year old in the house she lived in. Allowing a person who willfully ignored pedophilia and torture be in a position of power near/directly engaging with minors, and then hiring that person, is despicable.

Obviously horrible if true, but what's the evidence?

> Challenor moderated the major Reddit forum r/lgbt among others for several years.

Key quote from this article: https://freebeacon.com/culture/reddit-faces-massive-user-pro...

I deactivated my reddit account and blocked reddit domains on my devices this morning as a result of the censorship. So now I'm cut off from any more reddit interaction and can't provide anything further. Also, Challenor and other admins deleting evidence and permabanning people is like, the whole issue.

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Post by [deleted] »

lukebitts wrote: post #176
BitwiseFool wrote: post #101

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I was gobsmacked that The_Donald was banned because some users 'threatened police officers' and then a slew of ACAB and anti-police subreddits faced no repercussions during the summer riots. I shouldn't really be that shocked though, it was well known that the admins and site moderators wanted The_Donald banned for quite a long time.

I shouldn't be shocked people are trying to rewrite such recent history, but it still feels weird when most people here were there watching it happen. Reddit not only bent over backwards to try and keep TD up, they went to lengths they definitely don't go to when they ban other subs. TD stayed up past numerous warnings. They even tried direct intervention to get the mods to do their work. "It is well known the admins…

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Post by wlonkly »

stjohnswarts wrote: post #416
Rebelgecko wrote: post #52

Reddit has addressed the situation here, in a mealy mouthed sort of way: https://www.reddit.com/r/modsupport/comments/mbqgx2 However they seem to be denying the accusations that admins (possibly including the individual in question) were manually editing contents containing her name. This whole situation is incredibly bizarre to me. In the first place, why would reddit hire a 23 year old admin whose greatest accompli…

I suspect they are circling wagons and presenting a united front but this person will be fired or "resign" in the next day or so. She must not have told them about her history. You would think a network savvy company like Reddit would have HR department that can do a google search on someone's name though.

This Verge article was updated an hour and a bit ago to say that they have indeed "cut ties".

https://www.theverge.com/2021/3/24/22348255/reddit-moderator...

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Post by _ktx2 »

astrange wrote: post #495
_ktx2 wrote: post #486

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> Nobody's actually a libertarian in real life. I'm going to assume what you mean is that nobody lives entirely by Libertarian ideals. While that may be true, it's true of every other political category as well, so I guess nobody is anything under that logic.

Almost nobody claims to be a libertarian or gets elected by the party. Justin Amash and Ron Paul are maybe the only famous politicians. On the internet there's that political compass site that tells people they're libertarians, but it was made by libertarians so I think it's a recruiting tool. But it's also true that people don't practice it in real life. Drug legalization, yes, that's going somewhere if slowly, but…

I don't know where you get these ideas. I was participating both online and offline in Libertarian communities.

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Post by jgwil2 »

leetcrew wrote: post #242
lawnchair_larry wrote: post #186

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Do you think it's wrong to target a terrorist?

it depends? when I was a kid, my tennis instructor used to prop up pictures of osama bin laden on hitting targets. a little odd to do with young children, but not a big deal I don't think. if "islamic terrorist" means a picture of someone wearing typical pashtun garb holding an ak, that's a bit less okay. it's kinda like people who are really into home defense. there's nothing wrong with people who train a lot to def…

Not gonna lie, that's kind of an insane thing for a tennis instructor of children to do.

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Post by TameAntelope »

VectorLock wrote: post #442
TameAntelope wrote: post #93

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Moderators provide much less unique/irreplacable value than the current narrative suggests. However, the philosophical positioning Reddit has taken historically is that the Moderators own the subreddits, so yanking one away wholly from the moderation group would mark a substantial shift away from that positioning. Maybe that's a good thing for Reddit, though.

>yanking one away wholly from the moderation group Not much of a departure -- they've done it.

And I've eaten an entire pizza, but that doesn't mean my philosophy of eating generally so I don't become obese is invalid.

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Post by StellarTabi »

lawnchair_larry wrote: post #165
Rebelgecko wrote: post #52

Reddit has addressed the situation here, in a mealy mouthed sort of way: https://www.reddit.com/r/modsupport/comments/mbqgx2 However they seem to be denying the accusations that admins (possibly including the individual in question) were manually editing contents containing her name. This whole situation is incredibly bizarre to me. In the first place, why would reddit hire a 23 year old admin whose greatest accompli…

The obvious answer is because diversity trumps qualifications, and Silicon Valley companies are desperate to get their diversity numbers up.

Yep, gotta meet those diversity quotas, everywhere except board of directors, of course.

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Post by unethical_ban »

heterodoxxed wrote: post #473
unethical_ban wrote: post #467

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Just noticed it's L, like /Lrlourpresident (because the I account got banned). And look at the submissions, and the vote count of submissions. I do not have the comments I read several weeks ago available, but in my many years on reddit, I have no doubt there is clear vote manipulation occurring. inb4 "those are different things", I know.

| Lrlourpresident That's what I looked for. You should have better evidence than a highly active user in a restricted access subreddit before making an assertion like that. Especially considering how wildly popular AOC is, I don't see any evidence of manipulation.

Your instinct to shit on a lack of evidence is blinding you to the nevertheless present strong circumstantial evidence of vote manipulation on the subs.
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