I understand most of us don't care about Reddit anymore, but I can't resist an opportunity to shine more light onto things that Reddit are trying to keep quiet.
I might have some details wrong, but here's the TL;DR:
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A moderator of r/ukpolitics linked to an article from the Spectator, which "contained a three-word mention, in passing, of a minor British public figure, expelled from both the Liberal Democrats and the Green Party" (not knowing this was a Reddit admin)
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The moderator was permanently suspended for "doxxing"
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They later discovered that Reddit had hired this individual from the article, and therefore considered it doxxing.
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Turns out, if you mention this minor public figure (turned Reddit admin) anywhere on the site, you will get permanently banned.
... which isn't the bad part. The new Reddit admin (Aimee Challenor) allegedly:
- is married to a literal, self-admitted pedophile who writes sex stories about kids (tweet: https://i.imgur.com/j2GXHtW.jpg)
- hired her father as elections agent after he was charged for holding a 10 year old girl captive in his "torture den" where he electrocuted her while playing out his sadomasochistic fantasies ("subjected the child to a campaign of abuse which included tying her from a beam, whipping her and giving her electric shocks.")
- started off as just a volunteer moderator for child/teen-focused subreddits before becoming a Reddit employee
Reddit's banning anyone who mentions the new admins name. Many large subreddits are going private in protest of the admins. The admins just put out a statement clarifying the ban policy but no comment on why they hired (and still are employing) an allegedly avid supporter of child rapists. More subreddits are continuing to close. Could be interesting!
A good rule is to never use company wifi on your phone, regardless of company.
Keep your real phone turned off in the car. Only use the company phone or a phone you buy only for work. If you absolutely need to have people contact you at work (aka, many parents), then carry a flip phone.
Or a VPN? Genuinely asking.
Any company that gives a shit what you do on their network is not going to want or let you use a VPN
Separating yourself from service is more secure than a VPN.
VPNs are not a magic bullet. I would never access a VPN through a corporate WiFi, unless your IT department are next level incompetent. The problem is "productivity monitoring software" is becoming rather impressive in its ability to track employee's every action - and if you volunteer your personal phone to duo as your work phone, then you're asking to be monitored 24/7.
don't you have data on your phone ?
The work phone should have only work data. The personal phone has personal data and never accessed on a company network.
I am the wireless engineer at my multinational. So far we don't track much of anything coming out our employee phone wifi. There is some internet filtering, but it doesn't really track back to much if anything. There's still a few of us out here who don't want to spy on our staff. Granted, I am not a shot caller, but for now, we don't track employee phones. Company laptops? That's another story.
A neighbor of mine got fired for trying to look at porn on his company laptop, from his house on his off time.
I thought he was fucking with me, he didn't strike me as being that stupid to think he could do that. But, there you go. Benefit of the doubt, sure, but man I'm getting more and more depressed as I find out just how genuinely stupid some people are underneath.
Seems they’ve created an environment where you have to be part of the authoritarian commie hivemind to tolerate the job. Upper management wants all employees to be and think the same, so that none of their decisions are questioned. Just smile, nod and be a good little NPC. I highly doubt they even look at your application if you’ve ever publicly expressed views that can be considered “far right” (aka any view that’s right of communist). And if you are sane, you better keep your mouth shut or risk losing your job for saying anything negative about the hivemind. Commies run their company like commies...who knew! This is all coming from a bunch of people who most likely call themselves “progressives”. What a joke.