Posting this here because drama: Reddit Shitstorm because they hired a pedo
It falls into so many categories:
Streisand Effect
Why you should background check your employees before you hire them
How to be a shitty human being
What in Hell was the Reddit Organization thinking?
This needs to be spread to pressure Reddit to do the right thing
Specifically, the shitstorm seems to be how they responded. Someone posted an article that happened to mention the admin’s name, and they treated it like doxxing (even though the poster didn’t even know they were an admin). Then they started going around banning anyone at all who talked about it.
The woman in question is not necessarily a pedo herself, but has a father and husband who are child sexual predators. The father has gone to jail for it, yet the admin hired him. More damning, though, is that her husband, before she married him and continuing to this day, is a pedophilia activist. (And, no, I didn’t leave out the “anti-.”)
She has also been placed in charge of checking if certain content crossed the sexualization of minors line, and allegedly left a lot of stuff behind. And Reddit has had a problem before in letting me sexualization and “jailbait” stuff pass before.
It’s multiple unforced errors at best, and suggests far more. I can’t figure out a good reason their response wouldn’t have been to just fire the admin as soon as they found out, if it was jus let due to a bad background check.
To be honest they treated it way worse than how they would actually treat doxxing.
This story only makes sense if there is some giant conflict of interest with Challenor.
Here is Reddit’s explanation for what happened:
They fired the admin, and seem to be saying that the bannings were due to an automated process that they set up previously due to doxxing issues against this person, as something they use in extreme cases. It would shut down any post using the name of the person in question.
It’s unclear what the original supposed doxxing was about, whether or not it was actually doxxing, or the admin in question trying to keep the information from getting out.
That said, this doesn’t explain their previous response that made it out like it was no big deal, which is why subreddits were going black in protest.
“Pedophile” is not synonymous with “child abuser”. There needs to be someone, like me, to stick up for those people with mental illness that causes them to sexually desire children, but still have the willpower to not abuse children to satiate their desires. Modern anti-child pornography laws tend to even forbid animated children in sexual situations, so even the fact that modern technology could allow them to scratch their itch harmlessly has been thrown away because of the misguided conception that any child pornography, even that which is produced without harming children, encourages people to abuse children.
Again, “pedophile” is not synonymous with “child abuser”. There’s nothing inherent antisocial about having sexual desires for children so long as you don’t act on it, in the same way there’s nothing wrong with fantasizing about all sorts of other criminal behavior so long as you don’t actually do it or encourage others to. I would be in prison forever if I were to be judged on the things that I thought about doing, but I’m not because I can actually control my actions much better than I can control my thought processes.
I am not a pedophile, and I don’t know any, but my interest in this area is for having as similar mental defect that people completely misunderstand, one that causes them to think of me as a horrible monster when I’m the exact opposite. I’ve already suffered some negative social consequences for sticking up for non-abusive pedophiles in the past, and I know they’re not something that people have much sympathy for, but that’s only because they don’t understand that “pedophile” is not synonymous with “child abuser”.
I am aware of the distinction. But it’s generally irrelevant to my post. The guy is a pro-pedophilia activist. Meaning he promotes pedophilia—sex with children. . That’s bad no matter what.
I suppose that would definitely be a problem. I was just excited I might get to use my rant somewhere it was on-topic on be heard by people who might actually agree with me, compared to every other time it’s come up.
I don’t know the details of her husband’s advocacy work, but there are people who literally advocate for the abuse of minors. And her father was certainly an abuser of minors, and a particularly horrific one. Also note that her father’s abuse happened when she was 18 and living in the same house, making it very implausible that she didn’t know about it.
Oh, no big deal. I agree with what you said in general. I do try to make the distinction. I do feel bad for non-acting pedophiles, and hope that we can come up with treatments.
What a lot of redditors pointed out was that she was also modding many child-related subreddits. (i.e. in a perfect position to help her husband groom kids) She was a mod for several years before they hired her as an admin.
I also wanted to comment on the fact that they apparently did zero background check before hiring her. And in this case, all they needed to do was to google her and they’d have found her political background (with issues).
Well, my curiosity is piqued.