SJWs attack Imgur alternative with child porn over its support of the former r/fatpeoplehate community

http://www.breitbart.com/tech/2015/11/03/imgur-alternative-slimgur-taken-offline-by-targeted-child-porn-uploads/

 

Social Justice Warriors once again took it upon themselves to attack a company that isn’t aligned with their values after a Reddit AMA with Imgur’s creator flared up some old grievances.

 

 

A rival image hosting service to Imgur, called Slimgur, was taken offline after it was inundated with uploads of pornographic images of children following the AMA with Alan Schaaf on October 21st.

The Slimgur image-hosting service was set up in the aftermath of Imgur repeatedly removing images from the r/fatpeoplehate subreddit. In retaliation, the moderators of that subreddit posted photographs, taken from the Imgur About page, in their sidebar pointing out that many of the company’s staff were overweight themselves. This, along with then Reddit CEO Ellen Pao making a pledge to commit to “safe spaces” on the site, saw thesubreddit banned and the moderators shadowbanned. Any attempt to revive the subreddit was shut down instantly. When it was shut down, the subreddit was in the top ten active subreddits on the site.

At the time, Schaaf had reached out to the subreddit in a bid to try and quell hostilities. In a private message sent to the moderators. he claimed that the subreddit was not being singled out and cited their terms of service as forbidding the images from the subreddit being submitted to the community. As long as the images being submitted weren’t published to the Imgur community it was claimed the site would still host them without incident.

Many pointed out the financial ties between Imgur and Reddit, with Reddit having made a monetary contribution to the site’s funding in April 2014. The service was originally conceived as a “gift to the Reddit community” when it was launched in February of 2009. It is also worth noting that Slimgur links were set to be auto-filtered if posted to Reddit, meaning they had to be manually approved by moderators. This was never publicly communicated.

During the AMA many people brought up the banning of r/fatpeoplehate and Imgur’s role in it. Multiple comments were deleted by Reddit moderators, however one of the few that remained was addressed by Schaaf. He responded by saying, “[I] don’t know too much about it specifically,” adding, “aside from the fact that our employees were being harassed and that was a huge bummer. I only found out about it after the fact, and then before I knew it the subreddit was banned.”

When asked to clarify what constituted harassment, Schaaf responded, “Our employees were receiving hate email addressed personally to them with photoshopped pictures of hateful things. They also posted our employees pictures in their sidebar.” No evidence of individual harassment has ever been publicly provided by Imgur to substantiate these claims. Equally, Reddit didn’t ever publicly acknowledge that the images posted on the sidebar contributed towards the banning of the subreddit, but based on the comments from Schaaf and his assertion that hosting already public images is “harassment,” it’s hard to believe the pictures didn’t play a part.

In the thread several users turned up to speak out against the banning of the subreddit and once again raise concerns about Reddit’s commitment to free speech. A Reddit user called BigBonesDontJiggle, who based on their name was most likely a frequenter of that subreddit, posted the following in response:

The only thing that FPH did was post this photo of Imgur being fat.

This was in response to Imgur actively censoring their FPH content while leaving far more vile stuff up like hardcore white supremacy stuff, but obviously when you’re nearly all fat and white the FPH stuff seems worse if you’re only interested in yourself.

No doxxing, no organised harassment, just a photo of them from their own about page. Any other harassment that occurred would have been individual efforts and certainly wasn’t organised through FPH and any attempts to do so would have been instantly deleted.

The mods followed the anti-doxxing/anti-brigading rules far more strictly than a lot subreddits do. If you’re ashamed of how fat you all are and don’t want a photo of you all being fat in the public domain, maybe don’t put that photo in the about page of your own website in future. Just a thought.

In the resulting arguments about whether or not the banning of the subreddit was fair, several people attacked those who championed FPH for “body shaming,” among many other newly invented SJW crimes. Those speaking out against the ban were downvoted and subject to abuse of their own.

However, it didn’t end there. With talk of the Slimgur service being brought up and argued about between advocates of free speech and social justice warriors on Reddit, coincidentally indecent images of children were uploaded en masse to the service. After links were posted in the AMA, the service received a massive influx of traffic that the servers couldn’t cope with. When the site didn’t return, the creator of Slimgur contacted his hosting service. He was told on Friday 23rd October that the site was offline due to multiple reports of child pornography being uploaded.

Breitbart reached out to the creator, who calls himself Technician90, who explained the situation to us:

Around 3PM on Friday I received an email from the Arvixe hosting company that my site had illicit images of children on it and my account would be terminated and that I would not be given any access to the site whatsoever and no backups would be provided.

My site has always been very closely affiliated with the “fat people hate” community. In fact it was created as a direct result of the censorship of FPH content on imgur. This obviously makes me a target because the FPH community is very polarizing and people either fall into one of two camps “free speech” or “safe-space.”

The site was back up and running within a few days of the attack, however they had to move to a new domain, sli.mg.

“Arvixe has locked our slimgur.com domain and slimgr.com domain,” he continued. “They are not making the transfer easy. When they terminated the account they have stopped forwarding emails from the registrant email to my personal inbox and I cannot confirm a transfer to a new domain registrar. I really just want to stop doing business with them but for some reason they’re making it incredibly difficult to sever ties.”

The Slimgur community is now mostly based over on Reddit rival voat.co, which has reiterated its commitment to free speech on multiple occasions. Voat can also have sympathy with the plight of Slimgur after they too were taken down for being falsely reported for hosting child pornography by SJWs.

“I’m fortunate that my community is very supportive and that I can easily reach them through the voat forum,” concluded Technician90. “Without that avenue of communication this would almost certainly have been a death-blow to my operation.”

The defiant relaunch announcement of Slimgur can be read over on Voat.

Jezebel Now Defending Child Rapist/Murderer Pedos

BY · NOVEMBER 5, 2015

http://theralphretort.com/jezebel-now-defending-child-killer-1104015/

We’ve seen a litany of progressive rags push pedophilia lately, and I’ve covered it previously here on The Ralph Retort and on my channel. And you also see your fair share of tranny controversies here. Hell, just yesterday I posted about the HERO ordinance in Houston not passing which means that men would not be allowed to use women’s bathrooms. Which was a big relief.

But today’s story is not. Our good friends at Jezebel have chosen to white knight for a convicted murderer who raped and slit the throat of a 13 year old girl back in 1993, and are claiming that we should now let him move into a comfy women’s prison. All because he now “identifies as female”. Yes, that’s right: a feminist propaganda rag is claiming that we’re bigots unless we let a convicted male who raped and murdered a child into the women’s prison.

The disgusting murderer in question predictably chose to take on the name of a hybrid stripper/wrestler/super hero; Synthia-China Blast.

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Taylor Swift Sued For Copyright Infringement Over ‘Shake It Off’ Chorus

Taylor Swift is being sued for copyright infringement by a struggling musician, who claims that the superstar ripped off one of his songs for the lyrics of her mega-hit ‘Shake It Off’.

American R&B singer Jesse Braham alleges that Swift uses substantially the same 22-word phrase she uses in the chorus for her former Number 1 single ‘Shake It Off’ as he did for his 2013 song ‘Haters Gone Hate’. According to legal papers, Braham is claiming copyright infringement of the phrases “haters gone hate” and “playas gone play”, which also appear in Swift’s song.

http://www.contactmusic.com/taylor-swift/news/taylor-swift-sued-copyright-infringement-shake-it-off_5007988

The Costco Affair: The Alleged Victim Married to a Muslim Brotherhood Leader

Asma Al-Shawarghi says she was insulted in Montreal by an employee of Costco who told her to “go back to her country”. She is claiming moral and punitive damages.

But who is Asma Al-Shawarghi? Her husband, Bilal Hamideh, is vice president of the Canadian Muslim Forum (CMF), the largest Islamic lobby in Quebec.

Ms. Al-Shawarghi openly displays her sympathy for the Muslim Brotherhood. She poses here with her daughters making the sign of the Muslim Brotherhood, an organization founded in Egypt in 1928 and which now operates in many countries.

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The Costco Affair: The Alleged Victim Married to a Muslim Brotherhood Leader

Calgary Imam Soharwardy better find a way to say sorry after comparing former PM Stephen Harper to murderous Ugandan dictator

http://m.calgarysun.com/2015/11/04/calgary-imam-soharwardy-better-find-a-way-to-say-sorry-after-comparing-former-pm-stephen-harper-to-murderous-ugandan-dictator

On the one hand, Stephen Harper cancelled the long-form census.

On the other, you have a freezer full of decapitated human heads — trophies displayed by Ugandan dictator Idi Amin for amusement, and to scare anyone else who might dare cross his majesty.

Of course, you can argue that Canada’s former prime minister repeatedly prorogued Parliament, and called the niqab “anti-woman” in his bid to have face-coverings banned at Canadian citizenship ceremonies.

But then, Uganda’s president from 1971 to 1979 had 300,000 of his own citizens slaughtered, broadcasting mass executions on live television and torturing others via gruesome medical experiments, to ensure they suffered as long as possible.

And on the comparison goes: Harper making choices that were unpopular with a majority of Canadians, and Amin making deranged decisions that ensured his place in the annals of blood-thirsty, despot sociopaths.

Over this ludicrous, half-baked comparison, a respected Muslim voice in Canada has veered dangerously close to irrelevance — because anyone who would seriously compare Stephen Harper with Idi Amin clearly can’t be trusted for an objective opinion.

Somehow, Imam Syed Soharwardy apparently believes just that.

“Stephen Harper’s legacy as Prime Minister of Canada. He ruled Canada as Idi Amin ruled Uganda,” reads the outrageous social media post, repeated Tuesday on both Facebook and Twitter.

Either Soharwardy fails to grasp historical facts and basic logic, or the head of Islamic Supreme Council of Canada is willing to sink to any depth for cheap publicity, insulting the victims and survivors of Uganda’s darkest hour just to get a spurious point across.

Either way, the apologies and explanations better start soon, and they had better be good, if Soharwardy doesn’t want to end up as the PETA of Canadian religious leaders, known mainly for hyperbole and hysterics.

For a man whose previous work has included speaking out against Muslim radicalization and honour killings, going so far as to condemn ISIS in a fatwa signed by Muslim leaders across Canada, this is a major misstep.

Canada needs strong Muslim voices, to show both the religion and secular society in its best light — and most of the time, Soharwardy offers just that.

But to suddenly invoke a madman like Amin, just to make a point against a prime minister he doesn’t like?

Soharwardy better find a way to say sorry, and soon.

He couldn’t be reached Wednesday, even as the Internet seethed with outrage over the Amin/Harper suggestion, one typical response reading “You should retract that statement or forever stand shamed in Canadian society.”

And really, Soharwardy should be ashamed.

Harper, like him or loathe him, was the product of a democratic system, and a choice made in a free election — which is why he was so easy to get rid of, once Canadians decided they didn’t like Harper or his Conservative party anymore.

The soil of Uganda is littered with the remains of people who dreamed about the kind of freedom Canadians enjoyed under Harper — freedom Soharwardy mocked with a metaphor that insults those anonymous graves.

“Disgraceful,” is how Tarek Fatah describes Soharwardy’s social-media link between Harper and Amin.

Fatah, a secular Muslim scholar and political activist from Toronto, says Soharwardy has a personal loathing for the former prime minister that’s tainting his judgment.

“Imam Soharwardy seems to have developed a personal hateful grudge towards Stephen Harper and it seems it’s a result of the previous government spurning his overtures and lobbying efforts to position himself as some sort of a ‘moderate’ Muslim leader,” wrote Fatah, in an e-mail interview.

He says Soharwardy obviously doesn’t understand the history of Uganda.

“What Soharwardy forgets is that Idi Amin was a Muslim bigot, a racist and a borderline psychopath.”

STEPHEN HARPER VS. IDI AMIN

Their Top Five Controversies

HARPER

1. Scrapped long-form census, depriving Canada of demographic information.

2. Abandoned Kyoto Accord, the world’s plan for climate change.

3. Mike Duffy. Senate expense scandal dogged Harper’s final term.

4. Syrian refugees. Harper slammed for not helping enough.

5. Muzzled scientists. Harper accused of silencing critics.

AMIN

1. Killed an estimated 300,000 civilians.

2. Ate some of them. Amin called human flesh “salty.”

3. Ran human torture factories.

4. Ethnic cleansed, based on race and religion.

5. Admired Hitler.