The Gentleman

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Former Reddit CEO challenges tech executives to remove incels from Silicon Valley

http://www.newsweek.com/incel-ellen-pao-reddit-silicon-valley-involuntary-celibate-tech-gender-910107

Excerpt: “Pao herself has also been the victim of several gender and harassment events, including her July 2015 resignation as CEO of Reddit. One of the primary goals of her tenure there was to ban groups spreading revenge porn. But after she banned five Reddit communities for harassment, Pao became the target of vicious online threats and a Change.org petition that amassed 200,000 signatures calling for her removal from the company. On July 10, 2015, Reddit bowed to the pressure and she resigned ‘by mutual agreement,’ but challenged the Reddit community to ‘balance authenticity and compassion…disagreements are fine. Death threats are not.’”