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Reddit banning users for sharing Julie Bindel article

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Cwenthryth · 23/03/2021 17:57

twitter.com/bindelj/status/1374372934379204608?s=21
Julie Bindel has shared on Twitter that Reddit is banning any mention or sharing of her Spectator article & banning users for discussion Aimee Challenor/Knight as well.

Here’s the spec article
www.spectator.co.uk/article/the-green-party-s-growing-contempt-for-women-s-rights

Reddit banning users for sharing Julie Bindel article
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happydappy2 · 23/03/2021 20:12

Think I read somewhere that the Challenors developed terf blocker for Twitter....and I am very concerned about their input to the advice to Girl Guides... join up the dots & it doesn’t look good

MaudTheInvincible · 23/03/2021 20:01

@StocksAndScares

The person in question is a paid administrator. They have far more power than a mod.

Yes. The mods have had to delete all the comments to protect the users from the paid administrator! I mean, talk about Streisand Effect!! I've never used so many exclamation marks and I find my eyebrows are stuck too Shock 😲

PotholeHellhole · 23/03/2021 19:59

I'm grimly fascinated by the lack of nous. There are three words in that original article that refer to that admin member, and it's a hyperlink. Amongst many hyperlinks.

Three.

Let's be honest, in the age of the internet, where people make long posts on the basis of a headline without ever reading the article itself, no-one would have clicked that link.

NecessaryScene1 · 23/03/2021 19:59

I wonder if the mainstream media will pick up on it at all?

I think it's quite likely. "Major social media platform autobans any user linking to Spectator article by prominent writer to protect staff member" is news.

And journalists do like writing about journalism.

ErrolTheDragon · 23/03/2021 19:57

I wonder if the mainstream media will pick up on it at all?

LouiseBelchersBunnyEars · 23/03/2021 19:53

This is mental. People will be searching now, whereas they probably wouldn’t have paid much attention before. Definitely the Streisand effect

SuddenArborealStop · 23/03/2021 19:53

DH just said to me did you see the drama on reddit- one of the first times I'm ahead of him and more knowledgeable on the back story.. its being noticed wider than the usual audience anyway

NiceGerbil · 23/03/2021 19:46

Fucking hell.

StocksAndScares · 23/03/2021 19:46

The person in question is a paid administrator. They have far more power than a mod.

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Cwenthryth · 23/03/2021 19:43

Is there not any kind of oversight though? Can one member of staff have this kind of reach? Or does the Reddit leadership approve of this behaviour?

It’s really quite bizarre. And absolute Striesand effect. This would have been a discussion in a single subreddit about the Green Party. Whereas now.....bonkers. But sunlight!

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NecessaryScene1 · 23/03/2021 19:40

I think mine are stuck.

ArabellaScott · 23/03/2021 19:35

This seems to be all completely normal and not at all cause to raise an eyebrow or two.

NecessaryScene1 · 23/03/2021 19:31

The person in question became an admin in the last few weeks. And has been on a massive clean-up operation since getting that power.

A UK politics moderator unknowingly posted that Spectator article, into which Julie Bindel (accidentally or deliberately?) had planted that teeny little mention of Green party incident involving that person.

Which triggered the (semi-automated) "ban/delete everyone/everything mentioning me" thing going on in Reddit.

Causing a knock-on "what the hell is happening" effect where people had to do the research to find what in the Bindel article was triggering bizarre admin behaviour and banning of moderators.

MaudTheInvincible · 23/03/2021 19:27

I really don't understand the Reddit stance on this. Has anything new happened lately? Surely that tiny mention in the Speccy article isn't the cause? I'm a bit baffled by all the fuss. I mean, according to another site the mods have had to do this to protect the users!!

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TheRabbitOfCaerbannog · 23/03/2021 19:19

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StocksAndScares · 23/03/2021 19:19

This thread will be gone within the hour sadly

TheRabbitOfCaerbannog · 23/03/2021 19:19

We are very much in the Wild West when it comes to social media. It is a goldmine for vested interests.

allmywhat · 23/03/2021 19:19

I actually have a Reddit account but can’t think of a way to drop the clues without being banned. Maybe Glinner could update his post? A lot of people seem to be finding that.

allmywhat · 23/03/2021 19:17

I wish someone could drop the information about Challenor being involved in the Girl Guides safeguarding guidelines and the Stonewall Trans Advisory Group.

NecessaryScene1 · 23/03/2021 19:16

I saw one thread and a TAAT deleted today - don't expect this one to last long if you start talking about the individual involved.

ErrolTheDragon · 23/03/2021 19:14

Quis custodiet ipsos custodes?

...who moderates (or hires in the first place) the moderators on social media platforms?

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Cwenthryth · 23/03/2021 19:05

But worth considering how we discuss this for sure: the topic of discussion here is the censure and control aspect of Reddit’s actions - not the particular Reddit employee they are censoring people for mentioning, that person has already been discussed enough and doesn’t merit any further attention in my mind; any lurkers not familiar with their work I’m sure can piece together clues and follow through the link from Julie Bindel’s speccy article and on Twitter, if you really don’t know the backstory.

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Cwenthryth · 23/03/2021 19:01

I’ve not seen any other discussion of this on here myself. I see someone bumped a 2019 discussion to the front page, I’m sure for no particular reason.

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BraveBananaBadge · 23/03/2021 19:00

Have a couple of threads about it disappeared from here today or am I mixed up?

andyoldlabour · 23/03/2021 18:50

I managed to link to some Reddit pages via some "farmers" Grin, and it looks as though Reddit mods are playing "whack a mole" at the moment, as people are setting up threads left, right and centre, questioning why they are being censured, asking a lot of questions about the ex Green/LibDem person.