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You are inferring a motive in SkepChick that isn't apparent to me. Care to elaborate? Do you have reason to believe that she isn't actually concerned about bigotry and child porn perpetuating on reddit? If she was after page views, wouldn't she have linked to herself more than she did (one slate article she wrote, out of a dozen links)?

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...because there isn't an effort to have the discussion she pines for. She asks great questions, but instead of using the forum to raise the level of discussion and provide answers and a forum on how to manage freedom of speech in the digital age where every degenerate and "loser" has a place to express themselves, instead we get more of an us vs them, finder pointing, shaming, ala Bill O'Reilly on Fox News, which rightfully causes defensiveness. She is more interested in pointing the finger and screaming fire, instead of grabbing a hose.

Her blog post starting out fine, but half way through, she decided she was more interested in mud slinging and shaming than having that discussion she so desperately wanted to have. It is left up to the reader to infer a motive for her choice in direction.

Please provide quotes which represent us vs. them, finger pointing, or mud slinging [0]. I'm not seeing it, but I'm also generally predisposed to enjoying her writing and personality.

[0] Shaming I'm not so concerned about - a few of those tweet authors should definitely be fucking ashamed of themselves.

I have an idea: Why don't you take it upon yourself to put the effort in and read the article as if you weren't someone who was predisposed to her writing and personality rather than demand people on the internet spoon feed you how to think.

I appreciate the offer, but no, thanks. I've got more interesting things to do than make your own case for you.

Thou dost protest too much, by the way.

> child porn perpetuating on reddit?

If there are images of child sexual abuse being put on Reddit people can contact the Internet Watch Foundation (http://www.iwf.org.uk/)

There are other problematic images: non photographic images of child sexual abuse not hosted in the UK. I have no idea if these are on Reddit, nor what Reddit would do about those. Christopher Handley trials suggest that these are criminal and could cause trouble for Reddit.

And the sexualised (not not sexual) images of children are also a problem. Luckily Reddit has banned /r/jailbait and continues to ban similar subreddits.

I find it hard to believe she really cares about the bigotry and child porn on Reddit when half her post is about people who were mean to her

This doesn't make any sense. How does writing about two different things mean that a person is not concerned about both?

To be fair, it doesn't. But every time I'm invited to read what she's written, it is 50% her complaining about people being mean to her, and maybe 15% the actual issue. Excuse me for inferring her priorities

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