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Reddit Faces Massive User Protest for Banning Criticism of Controversial Employee
The Washington Free Beacon ^ | March 24, 2021 | Santi Ruiz

Posted on 03/25/2021 7:26:37 PM PDT by Tolerance Sucks Rocks

Update 6:40 p.m.: Reddit CEO Steve Huffman announced that Aimee Challenor is no longer employed by the company, saying "we over-indexed on protection" and that Reddit had failed its own standards in this case.

Dozens of Reddit pages have gone private in protest over the social media company's decision to censor criticism of an employee who hired her father, a child rapist, to run a political campaign

Major forums like r/music, r/fitness, and r/coronavirus, which each have millions of users, have closed, along with hundreds of smaller forums. They are protesting a Reddit decision to ban users who mention Aimee Challenor, a former British Green Party politician now working as an administrator for Reddit.

Challenor appointed her father as campaign manager during her unsuccessful run for Parliament in 2017, even though he had been charged with raping a 10-year-old girl. Her father has since been convicted and is serving a 22-year sentence.

The user-driven revolt against aggressive content moderation marks a new front in an already raging online battle over how much moderation social media platforms should conduct. But Reddit, unlike Facebook and Twitter, has traditionally avoided moderating all but the most egregious content.

Forums on Reddit, which bills itself as "the front page of the Internet," are run by moderators, who come from the forum's community and are volunteers. Reddit has generally been loath to moderate content on forums itself, relying on a forum's moderators to set the tone and establish rules.

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TOPICS: Business/Economy; Culture/Society; News/Current Events; Philosophy; Politics/Elections; United Kingdom
KEYWORDS: aimeechallenor; boycott; cancelculture; censorship; communism; forums; goingprivate; greatbritain; greenparty; homosexualagenda; jessicayaniv; lgbt; metoo; pedophilia; reddit; transgender; uk

1 posted on 03/25/2021 7:26:37 PM PDT by Tolerance Sucks Rocks
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To: 100American; 3D-JOY; abner; Abundy; AGreatPer; Albion Wilde; AliVeritas; alisasny; ...

Big tech covering up more pedophilia vis censorship.

PING!


2 posted on 03/25/2021 7:28:17 PM PDT by Tolerance Sucks Rocks (GOP-free since 10/9/20)
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To: Tolerance Sucks Rocks

I have always said that Reddit is for Homos - but it is apparently for child rapists as well. Yah for “inclusivity”!


3 posted on 03/25/2021 7:33:35 PM PDT by zoomie92 (No need for pictures - or even the perp's name really....)
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To: Tolerance Sucks Rocks

Good. Let the Communist Chinese-funded and controlled Social Media close


4 posted on 03/25/2021 7:41:02 PM PDT by Starcitizen (So Indian H1B crybaby trash runs Free Republic moderation??? Seems so. )
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To: zoomie92

r/coronavirus?

Full of maskhole Karens that just love that Communist Chinese obedience device.

Reddit is full of filthy H1B Indians and dot Indians

Was banned for posting an email I got from an Indian recruiter (no posting of personal details), that asked for my personal details in a recruiter subreddit.


5 posted on 03/25/2021 7:44:59 PM PDT by Starcitizen (So Indian H1B crybaby trash runs Free Republic moderation??? Seems so. )
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To: Tolerance Sucks Rocks

Big tech covering up more pedophilia vis censorship.

PING!
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Was banned from all of Reddit for complain about censorship and complaining about the illegality of ALL VOIP in the r/Dubai subreddit and posting VPN solutions.

I’m on my 7th or 8th name now...


6 posted on 03/25/2021 7:47:59 PM PDT by Starcitizen (So Indian H1B crybaby trash runs Free Republic moderation??? Seems so. )
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To: zoomie92

pedophilia infiltrated the ranks of big tech internet companies when porn was first sold over the internet. my bet is that sevral ceo in silicon valley were caught up in having under age porn in the beginning years when the ability to monitor what was being viewed was limited. I am betting that the upper management of reddit is riddled with secret pedophiles. one must remember Ghislaine Maxwell was a major player when it came to moderating at reddit.


7 posted on 03/25/2021 7:55:16 PM PDT by PCPOET7
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To: Tolerance Sucks Rocks

>But Reddit, unlike Facebook and Twitter, has traditionally avoided moderating all but the most egregious content.

That is pure BS. They have let slide all sorts of egregious Leftist content, while shutting down conservative-leaning subforums for the flimsiest of reasons.


8 posted on 03/25/2021 8:08:05 PM PDT by FreedomPoster (Islam delenda est)
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To: FreedomPoster

That is pure BS. They have let slide all sorts of egregious Leftist content, while shutting down conservative-leaning subforums for the flimsiest of reasons.
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Very little tolerance on most subreddits for any criticism of the Communist Chinese, its response to coronavirus, coronavirus origins, or lockdowns.

Very little tolerance for anything conservative.

I only have to be part of Reddit for its r/starcitizen_trades subreddit (have to get extra money somehow)


9 posted on 03/25/2021 8:16:16 PM PDT by Starcitizen (So Indian H1B crybaby trash runs Free Republic moderation??? Seems so. )
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To: Tolerance Sucks Rocks

What’s more, this “Aimee” person was born male and now pretends to be female. His brother has decided to do the same. What a family! Do an image search (unless you’re eating).


10 posted on 03/25/2021 9:33:14 PM PDT by Blurb2350 (posted from my 1500-watt blow dryer)
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To: Blurb2350

No thanks.


11 posted on 03/26/2021 7:44:42 AM PDT by Tolerance Sucks Rocks (GOP-free since 10/9/20)
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