RESTATED: In order to further protect these stories and this page, we would like to clarify that all statements made here are allegations. While we can't legally claim them as fact, we do support and stand with everyone whose story is shared here.
Everyone concerned about the post being pulled are right. Again: we didn’t want to take the post down. We shot ourselves in the foot by navigating this page “professionally” when we didn’t want to. It also didn’t help us that the post was secondhand. We tried hard to keep it up.
*IMPORTANT THREAD*
RE: False allegations
We’re removing the posts about Michael Bowen/Qemist/@qemmy_
We empathize with any distress and backlash this has caused. We acknowledge the mistake. This has been the only exception to our rule so far.
Every single person following these pages needs to start speaking up when they see known abusers in spaces or all the threats we as mods- and the anons - have been getting will be for nothing.
As this page continues to grow we want to remind everyone to be patient with us. All of our moderators are black women and non-binary folks. Everything around us has been stressful and draining. We are doing our best to take care of ourselves and tell these stories.