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posted by takyon on Friday July 03 2015, @06:00AM   Printer-friendly
from the internet-defense-league dept.

Victoria Taylor, the human interface between many celebrities and the Reddit "Ask Me Anything" subreddit, was today unexpectedly let go from her position with Reddit. The nature of the dismissal is unclear, including whether or not it was initiated by Victoria herself. As a result of this action, a large number of popular and/or default subreddits have gone private, or have disabled story submissions.

See here for more updates:

TL;DR /r/IAmA, /r/AskReddit, /r/Books, /r/science, /r/Music, /r/gaming, /r/history, /r/Art, /r/videos, /r/gadgets, /r/todayilearned, /r/Documentaries, /r/LifeProTips, and /r/movies have all made themselves private in response to the removal of an administrator key to the AMA process, /u/chooter, but also due to underlying resentment against the admins for running the site poorly - being uncommunicative, and disregarding the thousands of moderators who keep the site running. In addition, /r/listentothis has disabled all submissions, and so has /r/picsand /r/Jokes has announced its support (but has not gone private). Major subreddits, including /r/4chan, /r/circlejerk and /r/ImGoingToHellForThis, have also expressed solidarity through going private.


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  • (Score: 3, Insightful) by K_benzoate on Friday July 03 2015, @04:26PM

    by K_benzoate (5036) on Friday July 03 2015, @04:26PM (#204775)

    It's interesting to me that atheists don't get preferential treatment in the progressive stack [wikipedia.org] since we are just about equally despised/distrusted as Muslims. [pewforum.org]

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  • (Score: 2) by vux984 on Friday July 03 2015, @10:19PM

    by vux984 (5045) on Friday July 03 2015, @10:19PM (#204857)

    Its hard to discriminate against atheists since most of them never talk about their religion* :) plus they don't wear atheist symbols or traditional atheist clothing or form up in visible gatherings and specially marked buildings to practice atheism.

    (And no Flying Spaghetti Monster merchandise and evolving-Jesus-fish don't count; because they aren't really associated with atheism.

    *And of those that do...evangelizing atheists are just as annoying as any other evangelist.