Aimee Challenor is a former UK politician and
transgender activist. In November
2016, her
father was charged with raping/torturing a 10-year-old girl; despite this, Aimee appointed him as her election agent twice (she was suspended for this after her
father was convicted in August
2018).
She joined the Liberal Democrats in October
2018, but was suspended again in July
2019 when they learned that her partner Nathaniel made pedophilic tweets. Aimee claimed that his Twitter was hacked, but this is dubious since accounts on other sites with Nathaniel's handle also contained sexual stories about
kids.
In March
2021, a moderator of the subreddit r/UKPolitics was banned for posting an article that mentioned Aimee's name. It came to light that Aimee was a sitewide Reddit admin, that she moderated many large LGBT subreddits, and that writing "Aimee Challenor" could get you banned. Reddit claimed this was done to protect her from doxxing, but users didn't accept this since naming a public figure isn't harassment. Users also criticized Reddit for failing to vet Aimee's background and allowing someone with connections to pedophilia oversee forums full of vulnerable young people.
As a form of protest, many subreddit moderators temporarily closed their subreddits. Countless major subs with millions of combined users, including default subs like r/Fitness and r/
Music, joined the blackout. The site administrators were eventually forced to concede, and Aimee was fired from Reddit.