Reddit banning users for sharing Julie Bindel article

My devices are okay so far but I had to change passwords and notify my bank as they'd hacked an account and were ordering things using my card. My email was accessed and they spammed me with thousands of subscriptions.

They really are sick individuals aren't they?

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I am so sorry [flower]

The only thing I would recommend is just starting again with your accounts or making temporary ones and leaving them dormant for a long time. If they have accessed any devices then please seek professional help to see if its resolvable or not.

What did the police say/do?
They couldnt really do much. When someones that advanced at tech they werent going to find them. They were glad I reported because if it escalated further then they would have a history. Thankfully it never did and was just virtual/ online and never translated into my physical life as money stolen or turning up at my house. It did have an indirect effect on my physical life at the time though and the stress did cause me to leave my job and cause a really bad period of mental health.

I wouldnt wish it on my worst enemy but weirdly I am glad it happened. I wouldnt be where I am today without it. In a way it was a bit like COVID where I was forced to step out of life temporarily and rebuild it for the better in the exact way I wanted. All my closest friends who know me say I am the luckiest out of everyone they know and ironically the only person I have to thank for that was my hacker. So its a happy ending :)

These people are sick, evil bastards. It's frightening that they seem to have so much power and influence.

LemonSwan, that is horrendous, I'm so sorry.

Really baffling, to me, that we get so many visitors at FWR to berate us on how awful, bigoted and mean we are - yet there's the whooooole rest of the internet with forums and discussions taking place that are - well, another level, to say the least.

It's like Che Guevara gatecrashing the WI, and shitting on the scones for being bourgeois, while knowing fine well that elsewhere Batista is merrily setting up the firing squads.

First the superstraights & now this. I’d have thought Reddit users would be heading for WTF mode fast.

While this thread remains up, if you want an insight into what goes on on Reddit, the #superstraight viral happening is instructive. Particular Reddit threads were targeted with certain material (which I can't specify here) and the presence of this material was then used by Admins opposed to those threads as a justification for them to be removed.

Blimey LemonSwan

Posting a news article from a major publication containing a brief mention of news that is widely available across all major UK outlets is now doxxing then? Words really do mean whatever they want them to don't they .

Regarding the individual concerned, while I feel desperately for them as a child they are an adult now and responsible for their own actions. At the very best interpretation they have zero concept of safeguarding or appropriate behaviour and should not be anywhere near a position of power in a site with vulnerable teens. It really is absolutely mind boggling.

But it has cast a great deal of much needed sunlight. Lots of mentions of women's subs being banned and suggestions that this is is all due to transphobia being heavily down voted.

Bloody hell, Swan. Terrifying and super stressful.

LemonSwan

I had a reddit account for a bit but I stopped using it after I found out what subs were allowed. Absolutely horrific.

Sorry last post made the same point as someone else a bit before!

Reddit has been sinister for a long time. I had an incident a while back where I was discussing womens rights and had serious issues as a result. Perma-banned, facebook hacked, email hacked, banking attacked, you name it - even my phone was hacked and loaded with altered fbook pictures of my friends covered in meme blood with threats written on it. It was likely an admin as it happened simultaneously with the permaban.

I had to scrap every phone, every machine, change internet provider and have my house rewired to the box, and obviously start all over again on the net. Police reports. The works.

It was pretty serious and now I am very careful where I discuss women's rights or those who might oppose it.

Twitter Reddit Facebook are all privately owned.

As such they can and obviously do decide which people and views should be heard and which not.

That is very not good.

MN has no edit or delete posts facilitity.. you can't block people. Anyone can post and they have to stand by their words.

No wonder it's hated by various groups.

The modern “public square” is social media and online discussion forums - none of which are actually public, they’re owned and controlled by private individuals and corporations, and most of which seem to be beyond a lot of jurisdiction. We rely on the benevolence of whoever is running these sites for free some of speech and association in many ways. When they choose to discriminate against a particular group - how do you combat that?

Excellent point.

Good lord.

I just googled the name and Reddit role.

No info available but scrolling down were a lot of links where people on forums had mentioned it.

Fucking hell the language! Transphobia. Really awful stuff.

But we're the worst of the worst?

That was an enlightening Google.

How did that person walk into that job?

Posting for the deletion message 😄

It is of importance though if Julie Bindells article is being censored.....

There was a thread about this on Mumsnet this morning that was deleted as being "not in the spirit". Wonder if this one will go.

How can people who post on a subreddit about politics and who are effectively gagged continue to want to stay on Reddit?