Reddit hired (then unhired) so called 'pedo enabler' Aimee Knight, Subs go private
Posted: Thu Mar 25, 2021 7:04 am
Posting this in PG because PG started on voat following a ban...seems fitting to post a topic here on SVF about reddit hiring a so called 'pedo enabler' and then censoring the talk about it https://archive.is/aHhLD#selection-721.63-725.165
"Overnight a slew of popular subreddits went private...
"The mystery was soon solved: Redditors claim that the company hired a woman and is suspending anyone who mentions her name or her father’s conviction for pedophilia."
"David Challenor was arrested for raping and torturing a 10-year-old girl in 2016. He was convicted by a United Kingdom court two years later and sentenced to more than 20 years in prison.
"Around the time of his arrest, his daughter, Aimee (Challenor) Knight was a rising star in British politics. Her father’s charges ultimately derailed her political career. An inquiry by the Green Party deemed that she’d failed to properly alert them to the charges and made a serious error of judgment by having her father run her campaigns after his arrest.
"Knight, a transgender activist who at the time was the party’s spokesperson on LGBTQ issues, accused the Green Party of transphobia. She later joined the Liberal Democrats. She was suspended from that party in 2019 based on her husbands’ tweets admitting to having sexual fantasies about children. She reportedly later claimed he’d been hacked."
"According to multiple posts on Reddit, Knight now works for the company. They alleged the company is deleting posts about her father and suspending people who mention her. Efforts to contact Knight were unsuccessful. Reddit did not respond to request for comment sent Wednesday morning. In posts about the situation, it claimed that the suspensions were in error."
"The controversy was ignited after a moderator on the UK Politics subreddit reportedly posted a link to a Spectator story about her father. The article contained a “three-word mention” of Knight, UK Politics claims. The moderator was subsequently permanently suspended for “doxing,” leading the Spectator to wonder whether Reddit was “censoring” the publication."
A post on UK Politics says they were reinstated after they contacted the administrators."
The UK Politics moderators took the unusual and drastic step of making the sub private.
“As we had no idea what had happened, or why posting this article resulted in a permanent suspension, we took the emergency step of making the subreddit private and immediately contacting the admins for clarification,” it states."
"They urged their members to refrain from mentioning Knight to avoid further enforcement."
UPDATE, Aimee Knight is no longer working at Reddit according to CEO statement:
"Update, 6:45PM ET: Reddit says it’s cut ties with an employee widely identified as former UK politician Aimee Knight, following a shutdown of hundreds of communities. CEO Steve Huffman posted a statement confirming that the site had been overzealous trying to prevent harassment, resulting in a moderator being banned for posting an article that referenced Knight’s name.
“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.” https://www.theverge.com/2021/3/24/2234 ... reen-party
"An independent report concluded that as a result of Knight and other members’ actions, “someone who had committed serious sexual offenses was given roles of responsibility within the Green Party during a period of almost two years.” Soon after, in 2019, Knight was also suspended by the Liberal Democrats party when her now-husband appeared to post comments about having fantasies involving sex with children on Twitter. Knight said that the account had been hacked."
"Overnight a slew of popular subreddits went private...
"The mystery was soon solved: Redditors claim that the company hired a woman and is suspending anyone who mentions her name or her father’s conviction for pedophilia."
"David Challenor was arrested for raping and torturing a 10-year-old girl in 2016. He was convicted by a United Kingdom court two years later and sentenced to more than 20 years in prison.
"Around the time of his arrest, his daughter, Aimee (Challenor) Knight was a rising star in British politics. Her father’s charges ultimately derailed her political career. An inquiry by the Green Party deemed that she’d failed to properly alert them to the charges and made a serious error of judgment by having her father run her campaigns after his arrest.
"Knight, a transgender activist who at the time was the party’s spokesperson on LGBTQ issues, accused the Green Party of transphobia. She later joined the Liberal Democrats. She was suspended from that party in 2019 based on her husbands’ tweets admitting to having sexual fantasies about children. She reportedly later claimed he’d been hacked."
"According to multiple posts on Reddit, Knight now works for the company. They alleged the company is deleting posts about her father and suspending people who mention her. Efforts to contact Knight were unsuccessful. Reddit did not respond to request for comment sent Wednesday morning. In posts about the situation, it claimed that the suspensions were in error."
"The controversy was ignited after a moderator on the UK Politics subreddit reportedly posted a link to a Spectator story about her father. The article contained a “three-word mention” of Knight, UK Politics claims. The moderator was subsequently permanently suspended for “doxing,” leading the Spectator to wonder whether Reddit was “censoring” the publication."
A post on UK Politics says they were reinstated after they contacted the administrators."
The UK Politics moderators took the unusual and drastic step of making the sub private.
“As we had no idea what had happened, or why posting this article resulted in a permanent suspension, we took the emergency step of making the subreddit private and immediately contacting the admins for clarification,” it states."
"They urged their members to refrain from mentioning Knight to avoid further enforcement."
UPDATE, Aimee Knight is no longer working at Reddit according to CEO statement:
"Update, 6:45PM ET: Reddit says it’s cut ties with an employee widely identified as former UK politician Aimee Knight, following a shutdown of hundreds of communities. CEO Steve Huffman posted a statement confirming that the site had been overzealous trying to prevent harassment, resulting in a moderator being banned for posting an article that referenced Knight’s name.
“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.” https://www.theverge.com/2021/3/24/2234 ... reen-party
"An independent report concluded that as a result of Knight and other members’ actions, “someone who had committed serious sexual offenses was given roles of responsibility within the Green Party during a period of almost two years.” Soon after, in 2019, Knight was also suspended by the Liberal Democrats party when her now-husband appeared to post comments about having fantasies involving sex with children on Twitter. Knight said that the account had been hacked."
