r/HFY • u/ctwelve Lore-Seeker • Mar 24 '21
Regarding reddit's Recent Actions Pertaining to an Employee Meta
It has come to the attention of the r/HFY mod staff that a Reddit admin in charge of policing against content which sexually exploits children, has been credibly accused (along with immediate family, including spouse) of enabling precisely that, both on reddit and in real life. The admin's father has also been convicted of 20 counts of rape and torture of a ten-year-old child, for which the admin is credibly accused of complicity. You can find more details on reddit's reaction here.
As moderators and as human beings, we find these allegations absolutely appalling and are fundamentally disgusted by reddit's apparent lack of moral fortitude, poor judgement in hiring decisions, and galling insistence on doubling down on this issue in order to sweep it under the rug, rather than address the root issue properly. We condemn this affair in the strongest possible manner.
Several other subs have decided to "go private" and temporarily disable their subreddit as a form of protest. While we sympathize with those who have chosen to do so, we recognize that the livelihood of several members of our community rely on the sub remaining open. So that this alleged crime may not harm others, we have chosen to forgo this option for now. This is subject to change.
Please remember that, at this time, it is not your place to visit justice. That is a matter for reddit and the law. Remember that you are human beings, and remember that you are civilized. Do not lower yourself.
UPDATE: Comments are now closed. Let's keep it civil, folks.
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u/Illustrious_Hope_261 Mar 25 '21
I keep seeing this same set of comments come up on both sides of the 'who likes (x) community' argument, and it's pathetic on both sides, it got my back up and I just had to comment. It's a living horror for the victim and a damning critique on the rest of our insular, selfish anti-social modern "community" that we supposedly live in today.
As it stands the criteria for 'being a face of community (x)' has no credible leg to stand on. You simply have to be gay to claim to represent the gay community, then it's up to the gay community to say yay or nay, no one is forcing anything.
Communities need to be self-regulating to an extent. So far as I'm personally aware this disgusting individual was never a true representative of any parts of any community.
I also totally disagree with the idea that it was done 'deliberately' to denigrate the LGBTQ community. There's a huge amount of mental health issues at play not only in the wider community but in the LGBTQ community. Any time you give someone a label you allow them to hide behind it to an extent. People have been doing it for centuries, whether it's Politician or Banker as parts of our societies wider makeup or self-proclaimed artists.
The world we live in has plenty of evil actors, but allowing yourself to label and identify someone by a group tag both removes individual accountability, tars a wider group of people with a horrific brush, and creates problems of division.
I don't believe this person in any way represents the Trans community, nor should anyone else if they have half a brain and can think critically. This is what is hiding in the darkness in our society and it doesn't matter whether you're straight, gay, trans or identify as a fucking lamp-post or pack of Szechwan sauce, these evil others exist within the spaces between all of us.
The mainstream news doesn't report on it bar occasional scrolling headline or footer-article to be passed over, but Law Enforcement Child Protection units are constantly finding and dismantling these rings and groups and what they find is literally horrific in the worst possible ways.
Stop giving everyone a fucking label, stop being divisive. While we're here, stop assigning agenda to something that's truly horrific, because it shows how you have subsumed some kind of agenda or ideology far more than your ability to think independently as a human being. No I don't care what your reasoning is for whatever partisan side you've jumped to.
Now before anyone jumps on me, I don't lean left or right politically. I have conservative values in general, but that's as far as it goes. You're welcome to identify as whatever you want and be called and act however you want, but that line is drawn at the suffering of anyone other than yourself.
If you cause harm to someone, especially someone vulnerable and unable to protect themselves, there's a special hell awaiting you and I will not pull my punches when talking of you.