Anyone know what is going on at reddit?

[xyz55555]

A bunch of subreddits have gone private and from what I gathered its a protest of an employee at reddit, and they seem to not really be able to talk about it. Anyone know whats going on?

[Dracoco OwO]

Some Alledged pedophile that work in reddit staff i believe got busted and reddit is banning everyone mentionning his name so some subs decided to go private to protest.

[Ramonkey]

Drama

[MikeBob2013]

โพสต์ดั้งเดิมโดย xyz55555:

Anyone know what is going on at reddit?

No. I don't do reddit, sorry.

[Marius]

Nice. Riot! Guess Reddit gonna be cancelled soon, lol. Crazy times.

[WhispersOfTheWind]

Chaos.

[Ailes]

Reddit acting up again like it actually mattered in the world? I've also heard a sack of rice just dropped to the ground in China, better call CNN.

[Azza ☠]

It's in regards to groups protesting Reddit hiring a controversial UK politician.

"We would like to give you all an update on the recent issues that have transpired concerning a specific Reddit employee, as well as provide you with context into actions that we took to prevent doxxing and harassment. As of today, the employee in question is no longer employed by Reddit. We built a relationship with her first as a mod and then through her contractor work on [Reddit Public Access Network]. We did not adequately vet her background before formally hiring her,” wrote Huffman. “Debate and criticism have always been and always will be central to conversation on Reddit—including discussion about public figures and Reddit itself—as long as they are not used as vehicles for harassment. Mentioning a public figure’s name should not get you banned.”

[Radene]

Reddit is being reddit.

These things will happen more and more often.

[Eddie Latium]

Basically there's this person, Aimee Challenor, a minor public figure in British politics that was involved in a couple of scandals - first hiring her father, accused and then convicted of raping a child (Edit: this happened in her home), then having defended and denied his husband online activity, who used to "promote" paedophilia. Challenor ended up being fired by both parties (Green Party, Liberal Democrats) and accused them of being transphobic because is a trans.

The issue with Reddit came later, as at some point she was hired by them; when these information few days ago started going around she deleted posts and things got out of hand with automoderators, at that point people started protesting the bans and censoring.


Half an hour ago Spez made a post explaining the outcome of the situation:

An update on the recent issues surrounding a Reddit employee

We would like to give you all an update on the recent issues that have transpired concerning a specific Reddit employee, as well as provide you with context into actions that we took to prevent doxxing and harassment.

As of today, the employee in question is no longer employed by Reddit. We built a relationship with her first as a mod and then through her contractor work on RPAN. We did not adequately vet her background before formally hiring her.

We’ve put significant effort into improving how we handle doxxing and harassment, and this employee was the subject of both. In this case, we over-indexed on protection, which had serious consequences in terms of enforcement actions.

• On March 9th, we added extra protections for this employee, including actioning content that mentioned the employee’s name or shared personal information on third-party sites, which we reserve for serious cases of harassment and doxxing.
  
  
• On March 22nd, a news article about this employee was posted by a mod of r/ukpolitics. The article was removed and the submitter banned by the aforementioned rules. When contacted by the moderators of r/ukpolitics, we reviewed the actions, and reversed the ban on the moderator, and we informed the r/ukpolitics moderation team that we had restored the mod.
  
  
• We updated our rules to flag potential harassment for human review.

Debate and criticism have always been and always will be central to conversation on Reddit—including discussion about public figures and Reddit itself—as long as they are not used as vehicles for harassment. Mentioning a public figure’s name should not get you banned.

We care deeply for Reddit and appreciate that you do too. We understand the anger and confusion about these issues and their bigger implications. The employee is no longer with Reddit, and we’ll be evolving a number of relevant internal policies.

We did not operate to our own standards here. We will do our best to do better for you.

[Masque]

Posting a publicly available news article about someone is considered doxxing, and grounds for banning?

Is that what I'm seeing?

[Dracoco OwO]

โพสต์ดั้งเดิมโดย Masque of Clavicus Vile:

Posting a publicly available news article about someone is considered doxxing, and grounds for banning?

Is that what I'm seeing?

Yes perfectly, that person is even qualified as a minor political figure so posting their name should be fair game but it isn't on reddit you get banned for it.

[Masque]

I'm guessing that's selectively enforced, depending on the political persuasion of the doxxee.

[Dracoco OwO]

โพสต์ดั้งเดิมโดย Masque of Clavicus Vile:

I'm guessing that's selectively enforced, depending on the political persuasion of the doxxee.

Well that person also got called out by the politicals groups she was part of too so pretty much anyone is against her at this point aside reddit staff.

[ʙᴜɴ.ᴇ]

hilarious.

I wish reddit got shut down.

[ArgentAbendAzure]

You can look up Graham Linehan on Substack if you want all the dirty details on this person.
Challenor is an unsavory character to say the least.