/r/ukpolitics goes private over pedo enabler reddit employee
/r/ukpolitics goes private over pedo enabler reddit employee
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amusingduck

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9,630 posts

160 months

Tuesday 23rd March 2021
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Title clickbaity enough for ya? biggrin

Today, people noticed that /r/ukpolitics has gone private -



What's all this about, then?

This story is about Aimee Challenor

substack said:
In August 2018 Aimee's father, David Challenor, was found guilty of torturing and raping a 10-year-old girl in the attic of the family's Coventry home. Images of child abuse, including photographs of Challenor and his victim, were found in the house and on Challenor’s computer and camera.

It emerged that Challenor senior committed his crimes while dressed as a little girl, wearing baby-doll dresses and nappies.

David Challenor was Aimee's election agent when Aimee stood as a Green Party candidate for Coventry South in 2017 and during the 2018 local elections. Aimee appointed him after his arrest for the crimes which now see him serving a 22-year prison sentence.
substack said:
After leaving the Green Party—accusing them of ‘transphobia’ on the way out of the door— Aimee joined the Liberal Democrats where history quickly repeated itself. The Lib-Dems launched an investigation into a whole new safeguarding concern.

This time, the alarm was sounded over Aimee's American fiancé (now husband), Nathaniel Knight, and his sexual fantasies involving children.
Since being kicked out of Stonewall, the Green party, and then the Liberal Democrats, they have been employed by Reddit and are now a site administrator.

/r/ukpolitics is private because references to this person are resulting in permanent bans for users

Christ, what a fking mess. These people walk amongst us.

Pegscratch

1,872 posts

132 months

Tuesday 23rd March 2021
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It is an absolute stshow, and Reddit are going to find themselves very quickly in trouble with this.

Electro1980

8,933 posts

163 months

Tuesday 23rd March 2021
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That’s a very long wall of words which basically seems to come down to:

Intentionally miss gendering someone (something that does not help any argument)
Thinking that group mods are employed by Reddit
Guilt by association
General “ew that’s icky”.

More than happy to be corrected, but is there anything to say that she has possibly done anything illegal? I have scanned through but CBA to read through what appears to be a rambling blog by a bigot with a chip on their shoulder.

amusingduck

Original Poster:

9,630 posts

160 months

Tuesday 23rd March 2021
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Electro1980 said:
That’s a very long wall of words which basically seems to come down to:

Intentionally miss gendering someone (something that does not help any argument)
Thinking that group mods are employed by Reddit
Guilt by association
General “ew that’s icky”.

More than happy to be corrected, but is there anything to say that she has possibly done anything illegal? I have scanned through but CBA to read through what appears to be a rambling blog by a bigot with a chip on their shoulder.
They are employed by reddit, that's the crux of the story. Moderators can ban you from a sub, admins can ban your entire account, which is what has been happening when people reference this person, hence the lockdown of ukpolitics.

It does trans people no justice to protect scum from legitimate criticism by allowing them to use transphobia as a shield. It's an affront to all the normal trans people, frankly.

Pegscratch

1,872 posts

132 months

Tuesday 23rd March 2021
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Electro1980 said:
Thinking that group mods are employed by Reddit
Said person is an employee of Reddit, not a mod.

Captain Raymond Holt

12,423 posts

218 months

Tuesday 23rd March 2021
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amusingduck said:
Waiting for the ‘just to clear up what happened’ post, coming in the next few hours. Probably slightly harder to word than when the WSB coup was fixed.



Pegscratch

1,872 posts

132 months

Tuesday 23rd March 2021
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What is most concerning about this is indeed the complete lack of attention given to this person's background. There is of course the premise that you cannot be declaring people guilty by association but there is a deep and dangerous lack of diligence around what this person subsequently has access to. The first time you can potentially declare it as trying to repair that relationship (I don't know about any of you but I won't speak to my father for a lot less than torturing and raping a ten year old girl he suspended from the ceiling) but how do you excuse the subsequent "lapses in judgement".

This individual is an enabler, at the very least. And that's being exceptionally generous.

gaseous clay

12,932 posts

261 months

Tuesday 23rd March 2021
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It is far from just guilt by association if this is true.

Eta, link shared in 1st post. I shared without reading the thread as had already been reading the substack from another link. Apols.

Edited by gaseous clay on Tuesday 23 March 10:23

Pete102

2,360 posts

210 months

Tuesday 23rd March 2021
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Reddit, in particular the mod-teams across many forums are horribly biased. Its a complete cesspit.

dudleybloke

20,553 posts

210 months

Tuesday 23rd March 2021
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Reddit is a strange place, they allow talk about incest fantasies but ban people who speak out against it.

amusingduck

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9,630 posts

160 months

Tuesday 23rd March 2021
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Massive (1000+ comments) thread about it here-

https://www.reddit.com/r/unitedkingdom/comments/mb...

untakenname

5,273 posts

216 months

Tuesday 23rd March 2021
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Sadly Reddit has form for this sort of thing, it's an echo chamber of left leaning individuals who have been ostracised by society.
A significant percentage of females on Reddit just use it to drive traffic to their onlyfans pages.

Pete102

2,360 posts

210 months

Tuesday 23rd March 2021
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r/CoronavirusUK is a prime example of that. Tow the pro-lockdown, pro-vaccine line, all good....if not...banhammer.

Dagnir

2,116 posts

187 months

Tuesday 23rd March 2021
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Jesus. It gets worse the more you read...

Excuse the crudeness but these people are ****ed in the head. Proper ****ed.

Get them on the register ASAP.

Supercilious Sid

2,698 posts

185 months

Tuesday 23rd March 2021
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Baduk are not accepting refugees.

amusingduck

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160 months

Tuesday 23rd March 2021
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rover 623gsi

5,230 posts

185 months

Tuesday 23rd March 2021
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The whole Aimee Challenor story is horrific. It reflects badly on a whole of people - especially AC as well as The Green Party and Lib Dem’s

Supercilious Sid

2,698 posts

185 months

Tuesday 23rd March 2021
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It reflects worse on Reddit's due diligence when hiring staff.

Pegscratch

1,872 posts

132 months

Tuesday 23rd March 2021
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Supercilious Sid said:
It reflects worse on Reddit's due diligence when hiring staff.
And the Lib Dems when they took said person on after the mess from the Green Party. In fact, the only people in this that get a free pass are the Green Party laugh

Captain Raymond Holt

12,423 posts

218 months

Tuesday 23rd March 2021
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Supercilious Sid said:
It reflects worse on Reddit's due diligence when hiring staff.
What DD... Doesn’t look like there was even any negative news searching, from a big firm like Reddit thats very shoddy.