The MNHQ Moderation team

[BarrackerBarmer]

Dear MNHQ

I'm very grateful for the commitment to free speech you've publicly taken, and for Justine's courage this week.

A former disgruntled employee of MN is writing on Twitter about the 'transphobia' of MN staff, and calling you TERFs. She is showing a great deal of bias and intolerance towards women with feminist views, this may well be her honest opinion, which is no big deal I suppose, since she is no longer an employee.

At least, it isn't an issue until she calls a shout out to her
'friends who still work at MN' to report and take down posts by 'transphobic scum', by which she appears to be referring to any poster objecting to being called TERF by her friend.

Regardless of the personal views of the MNHQ staff, who should be as free to hold their own views as I am mine, I am disturbed that there may be a small contingent of employees who are invested in unfair moderation and will not be applying fair-handed principles, at least if the claims of this ex-employee are credible.

Can you please give posters some reassurance that the difficult job of fair-handed moderation isn't being abused by the 'friends' of ex-employees who are 'reporting it all' and taking down posts because any gender criticism means the poster is 'transphobic scum'?

Thank you.

[pastabest]

[CapnHaddock]

Bloody hell

[LadyMcLadyCrisps]

Hasn’t she potentially breached data protection rules there? If so, I hope she understands how serious that is!

[spontaneousgiventime]

WOW! So, how safe is our data here? Do mods have access to our email address for example? With the threats to gender critical women we need to know what mods can access.

[WillowWept]

I've just reported this thread so that MN see it and have included the following message:

The OP is raising a good question and from a data privacy perspective I'd like to better understand what access to my personal data your moderators have and what you plan to do about what appears to be a data breach?

[RosenbergW]

@BarrackerBarmer will you post this in site stuff also? This surely could cause issues across the whole of Mumsnet??

[Teacuphiccup]

I’ve used my special transphobia glasses and still can’t see any in that screen shot. Mummybear is obviously being sarcastic.
She’s going to be furious if she’s given as an example of transphobia as she’s usually on the other side of the debate. Maybe it’ll peak trans her.

[WillowWept]

Hasn’t she potentially breached data protection rules there

Yes she has. I hope MN deal with this robustly.

[AssignedPuuurfectAtBirth]

The April screenshots are standard mumsnet GUI screenshotted. Anyone can do this.

[NauticalDisaster]

She’s reading this thread and has deleted some screenshots from twitter. We have them if you need them MNHQ, plus there are sites that archive old posts, even if they get deleted on twitter.

[Janie143]

Maybe a contributed plan to shut down MN due to data breaches now that other methods of getting women to STFU are failing

[CircleSquareCircleSquare]

Yes I have the screen shots too.
Doesn’t the unrolled save them too?

[Janie143]

• coordinated plan

[RosenbergW]

How do we report this beyond Mumsnet wrt data protection etc?

If she is spreading this stuff in public, what is she revealing in private?

[WillowWept]

thegirl me too.

It's an appalling data breach

[AssignedPuuurfectAtBirth]

This person is a serious self publicist.

twitter.com/emma_healey. She's screenshotting this thread.

Duh, deep doodoo for doxxing dodo

[foxyliz26]

As long as we are all posting within the law we should have nothing to worry about !

mind you I do have a degree in law , being a lesbian I remember the furore over clause 28 !

most of the old school Transsexuals , we know are not causing any problems yet get crushed on here when they have tried to debate politely

[Somerville]

That's some data breach

Yikes.

[NauticalDisaster]

@AssignedPuuurfectAtBirth she had screenshots from February up that showed an ip address at the bottom. It may have been the user’s she was screenshotting. That is a data breach and stealing data from a workplace.

[AssignedPuuurfectAtBirth]

I know. I get it, trust me I screenshotted them all last night.

It's a serious breach of trust and law. She must have stolen this data.

[pastabest]

As long as we are all posting within the law we should have nothing to worry about !

except the whole internet having our IP addresses.....

[RefuseToDenounceBiology]

The chances are they are still an employee.

[BarrackerBarmer]

I'd like to hear MNHQ's response before taking action on the data breach.

There is a trust breach here too.

And it's important not only to establish the extent to which anti-feminists have access to our data and may be inclined to abuse that, but also to establish if Emma's friends who still work here are similarly inclined to be untrustworthy, as she seems to believe.

I DO trust MNHQ to take this seriously. And regardless of the personal views of mods, they categorically must be safe with our data.