Banned for calling out dogwhistling posts

[DebbieHurry]

Yesterday, there was yet another dogwhistlng, vague post on the lines of " Should I send my kids back to school in September? Social media warns of a terrorist attack". This is about the 5th such post in the last 10 days. All by posters spreading panic and fear. I have reported in the past and MN has ignored it. Posts continue to mushroom.

Yesterday, I posted telling people not to get news from Tiktok and pointed out that there have been a spate of such posts.
My posts were deleted, and then my account was banned. My previous username was @KateMiskin.

Could @MN please explain why they allow blatant scaremongering and dogwhistling on a parenting site when the police commissioner has urged people not to spread rumours? And why my account was deleted? I said nothing offensive or that broke the rules. I have been a member for over 20 years.

There is literally tons of far right propaganda on MN. Whether or not MNHQ consider it to be a problem is for them to decide.

It obviously needs to be taken down. One ridiculous post about 18 women being raped can be ignored, hundreds of posts about foreigners being paedophiles and rapists, giving skewed statistics, made up scenarios and whipping up hysteria needs to be dealt with.

The main concern is disinformation, not misinformation.

I don't think it can be solved now. MNHQ doesn't want to get actively involved in tackling it, so the site will just descend further and further into the cesspit. The only hope is if the advertisers start to realise that it might be damaging to their brand to be associated with the site. Otherwise, it will just get increasingly worse than it already is.

My question remains - how do you intend to ‘solve’ this?

I answered your question.

Don't you think it should be 'solved' or at least addressed?

OK, so ‘taken down’.

Sharp intake of breath - and how do you intend to have the offending posts ‘taken down’?

MN have moderators who delete posts according to their guidelines. Do you want to - sharp breath - continue to drip feed sarcastic questions or - sharp breath - say what you mean?

The purpose is to show this as a hideous thing to do. It's hateful, ugly racism and there is no other word for it.

As a twice-victim of rape at fifteen - one such occasion being a violent gang rape - I resent my trauma and that of women like me being comandeered to make a cheap point for a repulsive cause. No one gave a shit about our trauma when we were told to 'Be Kind', or to 'reframe our trauma' when men decided they wanted to colonise female spaces for their own validation (at best). The voices of rape victims didn't count for a tin shit then. Nor when Sarah Summers wanted one female-only group, just one, not to ban men from every part of that facility or the service it offered. No, that wasn't good enough. Nothing but denying women one group and one area away from the demographic who hurt them would suffice.

Any female talking openly about her sexual abuse at the hands of men would quickly be shut down, as we saw in the repellent responses to #MeToo, and on this very site, every thread in which a woman seeks support with horrendous sexual abuse at the hands of a man, the MRA and their handmaidens pipe up with their stock response that NAMALT. Now, suddenly, NAMALT has done an about-face to become the parrot cry of these idiots - funny how it's fine to lump men all together as would-be racists and sexual terrorists if they happen to be brown ones.

As a rape victim I'm fucking delighted for this to be brought to as many people's attention as possible. They make me sick. And they certainly do not speak for me.

Its for MN to decide, on any resolution, X, as you are fully aware. Haven't you got something better to do with your time than spend it repeating facile questions?

Other posters, on this thread, have bemoaned the alleged willingness and/or ability of MNHQ to act as you would like.

Do you share their opinion? If you do not, all well and good, you should trust MNHQ to ‘take down’ the offending posts, providing a) they are reported, and b) they are in breach of MN rules.

I'm not sure if you're being deliberately obtuse but I'll spell it out for you. I have seen a lot of racist and far right rhetoric on this site which remains unchallenged. It needs to be appropriately moderated.

As to your first sentence, agreed.

As to your question - evidently you and I have the same amount of time to devote to MN…

No, not being obtuse - simply trying to apply systematic logic.

In conclusion - you appear to trust in MNHQ doing the right thing (please disabuse me if I am wrong).

I trust in MNHQ doing the right thing.

I have time for MN but not for induging in pointless Internet spats so I won't be responding to you further.

MN haven't done the right thing so far, so I'm not holding out much hope.

How would you describe the current ‘rumours’ that migrants are planning a terrorist attack on primary schools?

There we are - that’s what I was looking for.

Thanks

I have not seen nor heard of these ‘rumours’.

What was the source/sources?

No problem.

You haven't been reading this thread very carefully then.

How do you find threads out of interest because they've been in active threads.

And why do you want to know the sources , exactly?

The source/s are crucial to determining the veracity of a rumour, of course.

You spread a rumour - naturally I am sceptical. The rumour originates from AP, lets say, well, I would be a lot more inclined to find it plausible.

Uncorroborated rumours on MN, meh.

There are no sources @MyNameIsX - that's the point. Threads are started with these 'rumours' designed to whip up a froth. It's the old wind them up and let them go. OP never states a source and in most cases doesn't even return to the thread.

Quite.

Then give them the contempt they deserve - one cannot otherwise legislate for others stupidity or gullibility. If people believe threads/posts are for the purposes of agitation/provocation, they should report them and leave MNHQ to do their work.

For those who have stated they dont trust MNHQ to do so, they have two choices - leave MN, or ignore the above posts/threads.

Neither does the ASA, it is mostly reactionary . . . you make a complaint, they investigate, publish their finding. Like Mumsnet . . . except the ASA has standards.