Reddit banning users for sharing Julie Bindel article

That's an excellent point.

Just my 2 cents as I'm not well versed on these issues at all.

But what immediately struck me about this story is, why any politician with a very high profile role would seek employment as a moderator/admin on a forum which is supposed to be a very low profile job. It seems at least counterintuitive for a lay person and a sign that something is off

People (and the young, in particular) should be more aware of the complex structures and networks that exist behind the scenes in any of these platforms and how easily they can be used to shape and manipulate public opinion and push agendas - while still going largely unnoticed

Considering what gets people ‘cancelled’ these days, I am utterly utterly bewildered by this case.

And P news can get fucked.

Oh yes, of course Pink news, the story here is that it's just women trying to smear a whole movement of activists.

It's not that somehow someone with an inability to understand safeguarding; who is married to someone who is a professed paedophile; and who is themselves an ABDL; gets easy access to vulnerable teenage children through their Reddit privelages; and who is able to use the threat of other people being denounced as bigots and phobes to avoid any criticism or accountability.

No, it's the wimmin who are the main baddies. Of course.

"Silicon Valley reveals its phoney morality yet again" unherd.com/thepost/silicon-valley-reveals-its-phoney-morality-yet-again/

That's a new low for Pink News. Wowzers.

That headline!

Reddit cuts ties with controversial trans activist

Controversial! Controversial is Brexit. Or the NHS 1% payrise.

And we have the PinkNews spin....

www.pinknews.co.uk/2021/03/25/reddit-aimee-knight-challenor-admin-subreddit-blackout-protest-backlash-transphobia/

“Reddit has officially severed ties with trans activist and former Green Party politician Aimee Knight after hundreds of subreddits went private to protest her hiring.”

“Knight was suspended from the party in 2018 after it emerged that she appointed her father David Challenor as her election agent, despite the fact that he was charged with raping and torturing a 10-year-old girl in 2016. He was convicted in August 2018 and sentenced to 22 years in prison.”

“She later joined the Liberal Democrats, but the party distanced itself from her when her then-fiancé and now husband Nathaniel Knight was accused of fantasising about child sexual abuse on Twitter. At the time, she claimed that his account had been hacked. She later moved to the United States.”

Blah blah blah last para

“Through the controversy, Aimee Knight has been dogged by transphobic abuse on Twitter. Countless “gender critical” accounts have seized upon her appointment at Reddit in an effort to baselessly link the trans rights movement with child abuse.”

Ummm ‘baselessly’.... checks dictionary for ‘baseless’, comes to conclusion that Pink News are using their special dictionary again.

Well said that man.

Fabulous Glinner.

Not surprised you're exhausted!

Love that @glinner

Bravo @glinner

We've been shouting for years here. Make one biological reality a matter of choice instead of fact and the precedent is there for all the others.

There are a lot of seemingly dodgy people in charge of social media sites or at least have some level power on those sites. Reddit is rife with rumours of admins etc whose views run counter to safeguarding.

This all comes back to queer theory and it's link with anarchy. If you believe that there are no boundaries in sexuality and identity then the last boundary is age. And we know that the queer theorists and gender identity believers are changing organisations by stealth. More so when it comes to social media as they are hugely influential. I bet if we looked at the people in charge/in control, we we would find a whole collection of queer theorists.

Incredibly ironic that Parker and crew are employing the same tactics as the Reddit mods used to oust Aimee Challenor...

Ah I'd forgotten that; how the name Baloo came about

why was AC attempting to butter up the girl guides?

transcrimeuk.com/2018/08/22/david-challenor/

The Sunday Times article also reports that David Challenor worked as an assistant Scout leader and volunteer with a children’s gymnastics group which raises further grave questions regarding the safeguarding procedures and DBS checks which should have prevented Challenor from certain roles as he had a previous conviction, his children had been taken into care and he was charged with the most grave offences against a child.

The dates he worked for these organisations is unclear. Aimee Challenor has advocated for the controversial policy adopted by the Girl Guides to allow boys to self-identify as girls and therefore access female showering and sleeping facilities at camp without informing parents that their daughters will effectively be staying in mixed-sex accommodation.

He's actually a very good writer.

Fgs this is NOT a good look. Glinner has done a lot of work in informing people about the Challenors.

Thank you for this useful summary, I had seen bits and pieces in passing but not linked the attack on Glinner with the pressure to censor other writers.

Are glinner's pages all archived? I worry it will all go poof.

I hope he's got it all secure, but there are an awful lot of people watching what Substack does now. I don't think they can afford the bad press from touching him.

He's the current nominal focus of the huge anti-Substack going on among loopy Americans. They're also after all the other people like Greenwald, Sullivan, Taibbi, Weiss, but seeing if they can start by picking off Linehan.

They were already going at Glinner, but now they're super narked because of the extra exposure from the Challenor thing. They want that site down now.

As I said above, Reddit has already totally blocked Glinner's site from linking at admin level.

All the other writers are firmly supporting him, if a bit equivocal about what he writes. For example, Glenn Greenwald:

twitter.com/ggreenwald/status/1375079174440955912

Just as the current epidemic of online censorship began with the age-old tactic of targeting someone widely disliked (Milo, then Alex Jones), these censors are trying to create a censorship precedent for Substack by forcing them to boot one bad writer, then expand from there

Yes I see that in education a lot now, outside "experts" .... especially RSE.

FOR THE LOVE OF GOD, WHY was AC attempting to butter up the girl guides. Why would you do that? What was the point?

Some people seem to self-appoint themselves as experts and then get people consulting them as if they really were an authority.