Aimee Challenor is apparently a Reddit employee. This is why Reddit is banning her mention.
Seems extremely sus to me and why we can't rely on private companies to protect things like free speech and equal access to information.
Seems extremely sus to me and why we can't rely on private companies to protect things like free speech and equal access to information.
So they have a bot which bans links to article which mention reddit employees by name which hands out auto-bans to prevent that behavior.
What went wrong was that the code didn't have any allowance for newspaper articles, or somehow incorrectly classified that article.
That problem being made more difficult because the definition of what is a "news site" or "journalist" these days is vague.
This sounds like its the same category of problem that Memphis was with twitter.
And its a bit odd that this technology-oriented site is getting caught up in the political outrage and entirely missing the fact that a bot did the bans and that reddit acted to revert those actions. Do we now think that programming and algorithmic bugs never happen and that the outcomes of algorithms are always deliberately premeditated actions and never unintended consequences?
The problem comes up when you've hired a politician as a reddit employee, and you're written an algorithm that only cares about if someone is a reddit employee.
one that navigates to a linked article and notices a single sentence mentioning this admin's name, vanishes the post and bans the moderator who approved it?
sounds a lot more like 'reddit admin decided to abuse powers in an attempt to hide any link to how she once hired her paedophile father and was removed from a political party'
It's pretty clear now what happened is that a completely innocuous post to an article in The Spectator contained this person's name. They weren't the subject of the article or any of the conversation.
This particular reddit admin then removed it and banned the person who posted it (long standing mod).