Reddit Child Abuse Survivor Forums – Users Call for Resignation of Steve Huffman

In perhaps the most poignant and powerful condemnation yet, posters on Reddit’s forums for survivors of child abuse are calling for the resignation of the company’s CEO Steve Huffman.

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In a heart rending post on a Reddit abuse survivor forum, a user known only as ‘CASSeeBurn’ (Cassie) explains her horror at discovering that Reddit hosts paedophile text chat forums, that executives know and nothing has been done. She goes on to say that Steve Huffman literally haunts her nightmares. Artist impression of Steve Huffman child rape nightmare, background and stock photos of children by Dreamstime. Picture of Steve Huffman used under the parody exception to UK and US copyright law. Click for full size.

As well as controversial political forums, Reddit hosts a number of innocent, non-political communities. One set of little known forums includes the subreddits for survivors of abuse called /r/adultsurvivors, /r/rapecounseling and /r/survivorsofabuse. Last night a user called CASSeeBurn (Cassie) posted to each of them [1] (archive[2] [3], explaining she was using a burner account to escape reprisals.

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