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Maya Forstater Case - Thread 2 for the Mumsnet Massive

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Bardonnay · 19/11/2019 12:11

Thread 2!

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MichaelMumsnet · 19/11/2019 19:25

Hi all,
You've probably noticed that we're going through the posts on these threads to tidy up references to witnesses by name etc.

There are general reporting restrictions around cases like this and - although we're not completely clear on what can and can't be said as yet - we think it would be sensible to refer to participants by initials only.

We might even temporarily suspend the thread overnight just to be sure that it's squeaky clean.

Of course you can all still post about the issues raised by this case, but it seems wise to err on the side of caution with regards to identifying those involved.

Thanks in advance for bearing with us.

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MichaelMumsnet · 20/11/2019 07:20

Thanks for bearing with us - the thread is open and we'll go back and edit accordingly.

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HopeMumsnet · 20/11/2019 09:53

Morning everyone,
Just to clarify for everyone, re everybodypuuuullllll's question from earlier:

@everybodypuuuullllll

Once you discover there are no reporting restrictions, will you put the names back, *@MNHQ*? This is a historic case. If you get rid of the names, people are less likely to find this thread by searching.

Yes, that's exactly what we're doing now. We were being cautious, perhaps overly so, because it really wasn't clear why that name wasn't being mentioned anywhere. We now understand from Maya Forstater directly that there are no restrictions so of course we are re-instating (or as in this thread, for the posts to make sense, clarifying who initials refer to. We hope that's fair).

We do have considerable sympathy for the digital archivists of the future and hope that they can piece the story of this case together, but at the time we did feel that our options were limited to editing posts individually or deleting altogether.

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HopeMumsnet · 20/11/2019 10:20

Hi again,
Just to further clarify, what happened last night was that we were asked by several people (concerned that the Maya Forstater case not be jeopardised in any way) if we were certain that Clair Quentin's name could be used on our boards.
We weren't certain at that point so, as we said earlier, erred on the side of caution until we had confirmation from Maya Forstater herself. We have created a lot of extra work for ourselves, yes, but we don't mind, that's the job. Although we are a bit snowed under right now, certainly.

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HopeMumsnet · 20/11/2019 10:25

That's very gracious, Prodigal, thanks.

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