Reddit banning users for sharing Julie Bindel article

Rubie strikes again!!!!

The joke is explained: It's that old West Wing gag - announce you're going to have mandatory drug tests and the ones that will fail will quietly resign in advance

[quote Xanthangum]BREAKING: Reddit have announced an overhaul of their vetting procedures to ensure the safety of minors on the platform.

4,000 admins and moderators have resigned.

twitter.com/alexrubner/status/1375012752973049864?s=20[/quote]
Unfortunately that was a joke.

[quote Xanthangum]BREAKING: Reddit have announced an overhaul of their vetting procedures to ensure the safety of minors on the platform.

4,000 admins and moderators have resigned.

twitter.com/alexrubner/status/1375012752973049864?s=20[/quote]
Oh! Had me going there

[quote Xanthangum]BREAKING: Reddit have announced an overhaul of their vetting procedures to ensure the safety of minors on the platform.

4,000 admins and moderators have resigned.

twitter.com/alexrubner/status/1375012752973049864?s=20[/quote]
The next tweet from that person says 'this is a joke' ...seems likelier.

BREAKING: Reddit have announced an overhaul of their vetting procedures to ensure the safety of minors on the platform.

4,000 admins and moderators have resigned.

twitter.com/alexrubner/status/1375012752973049864?s=20

PotholeHellhole Yes I agree, I feel a lot of sympathy for AC. Surely not coincidence tbat AC has the same fetish as AC's father, it must've been learnt from somewhere. Poor kid
But obviously AC needs to not be in a position of influence with kids and young people because of this.

To the casual observer that would seem like a non issue. Even the juxtaposition of AC being presented as female against the dad’s rape conviction - ‘well what has that got to do with her?’ (Obviously my take on how it could be interpreted not what I think)

Share token for the Times article. This is a disappointing article. Zero mention of ACs trans status - ‘spokeswoman’ and demoted the husband to ‘friend’.

Minimise minimise and ‘nothing to see here’ just a bit of a techy falling out.

www.thetimes.co.uk/article/52120fe2-8ce4-11eb-8f69-0367b6f4fca7?shareToken=a5f18d9ff7ae92390f333c340b8dd920

They can't see the safeguarding implications because they are working hard to overcome the sense of "something here is not right".

I've had safeguarding training as part of a volunteering commitment that involves people with learning and physical disabilities. The main point the trainer wanted to reiterate was that if anything ever felt "off" you should report it, and that it can be looked at discreetly by someone senior. You never ignore a situation which has made you instinctively uncomfortable. This is basic stuff.

I wonder if reddit is going to do anything about all the subreddits concerning things such as feminism, pregnancy and gynaecology that got banned (while extremely dodgy ones are allowed to remain)?

I've always found Challenor's employability odd. There is the mediocre man to winner woman phenomenon, where people (male ones) seem to get magazine columns, broadcasting deals and positions of influence purely because they are trans, with no evidence of either brilliance or popularity.

Can we also talk about how not one mainstream outlet has covered the Reddit thing? Metro and the Verge. That's it.

Aimee has been on mainstream news outlets previously though, ostensibly as a spokesperson for trans rights. At least newsnight, probably others. Maybe that means they're trying to be careful now in order that they don't get pulled into this?

Arty gives a really good overview of the situation here:

And also talks about the phenomena which seems to happen where people lose their critical thinking skills when it comes to people like AC. They can't see the safeguarding implications because they are working hard to overcome the sense of "something here is not right".

Cross-post!

Honestly, the people I blame most in all this are the actual adults. I find it terribly easy to sympathise with Aimee, given what conclusions I can draw about that family. Aimee may still go through significant positive character development in the years to come. AC is only 24 now!

But a young person like Aimee should never have been put in a position by a political party where their incapacity to comprehend safeguarding mattered.

Here. If you use sensible search terms in the facebook search field, you should be able to get to it directly.

I can't figure out how to link directly, but FPFW posted it on their FB page in September 2018.

Is AC history and connections with certain people not public knowledge? If so, why are they allowed the roles they’ve been granted? Surely someone in a position of power over those roles has a modicum of intelligence and can see how inadvisable that is?

Was that the T-shirt photo?

iirc it said something like "Some people are trans, get over it"

It was by the steps/ladder leading to the attic I think.

Gasp0deTheW0nderD0g

I'd also be hell to the no about making a degree compulsory, but again our other MPs without degrees still didn't go straight into politics, post school. It's uni or workplace. (Indeed I've frequently complained that for some of the graduates it should have been uni and workplace!)

I'm very far from being a conservative voter, but in this case I think the Greens should have been following their example and certainly should not have been considering a 21-year old for a position of co-leader. It should have been as out of the question as it would have been for a 21-year-old William Hague to take over the conservative party in 1982.

I hadnt appreciated the value of media in general, until the last few years when its impartiality in general has been quietly eroded.