The MNHQ Moderation team

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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.

C’mon I know that a lot of Emma’s info has been made oublically available by her but we really don’t have to stoop to her level.

Would it be worth posting about this in legal or chat/Aibu to see if there are any experts around?

*publically

My new phone hates me.

undertakings can be got Juells. Being satisfied? that's a little harder.

'What a stupid stupid little girl.'

She has behaved in a reckless and stupid way. I think calling someone a 'stupid little girl' on the feminism board is rather ironic.

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But not everyone can screenshot private data. That’s the point.

whose 🙄

I am shocked that she was able to cut and paste and email to herself. I’ve worked in various organisations and we had cut and paste disabled as part of our managed desktop and also a keylogger so they knew all we had done. And we were banned from accessing our own email accounts via gmail hotmail etc we just couldn’t get on the websites.

Wow, where do you work, MI5?

I hope she never needs a reference. Potential employers look very dimly on this sort of thing.

I am impressed with winewine's employer!

I think she doxed herself anyway. Her name is on the twitter account.

It is interesting that she chose to work there when she must have been aware that open discussion was allowed. Maybe she hoped to effect change from within

The trouble is, the harder you lock down an environment, the harder it is for people to do their jobs (speaking as someone who was once asked to remote desktop, via a VPN, to computers half way around the world in order to do my job, where any cutting and pasting was logged, where internet access was cut off, and emails monitored for any amount of source code)

Yes it is a pain, I've regularly been in that situation, but its a common security requirement in many large organisations these days.

Some of the information posted/PMd is sensitive and could put posters at risk when combined with identifying details available from user info. Posters write here about experiences of abuse and a great deal more. This isn't just a data breach or a contract breach, or even reputational damage - its illegal.

@MNHQ appreciate this is all very sudden, but can you confirm that you will involve the police? Considering someone has maliciously and intentionally breached data and may be storing more data of a private and sensitive nature?

My new phone hates me.

I hate to be the bearer of bad news, but the problem may be that it's 'publicly', not 'publically'

I am impressed with winewine's employer!

Not mine - was quoting PP and wondering if they worked for MI5 or something.

I think it important that wider consideration is also given to how Emma's blog is being used by others.

Some will have political influence & some are activists.

My thought is that she deliberately targeted MN to get inside information

My thoughts too - and her comment about @Justine seems overstretched like she was hoping to get something juicy but couldn't.

I hate to be the bearer of bad news, but the problem may be that it's 'publicly', not 'publically' :)
let's keep our standards up!

I don't think posting this in AIBU is a great idea.

TRA's already circulate screenshots taken completely out of context. They will have a field day if it turns into a row over there.

It's easily traced back though. So please do not worry.

Keep up the suffragette spirit.

None@this coming election.

Spread the word.