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If you are cis ("not transgender") I need to explain this to you. Bluesky today posted this vague thread, announcing-without-spelling-out that they're allowing a writer, net troll and anti-trans activist named Jesse Singal to stay on the platform, despite every trans user saying it makes us unsafe.

This is the heart of the thread: They're looking at the one specific rules violation Singal is being reported for *currently*. And they're saying, this doesn't count as a rules violation, because he was careful enough to stay within the strict lines of the rule as written.

But also this is a very blatant rules violation

On my way to report.

No, it doesn’t. Dude is violating the spirit of the rules. Not the rules as written. There is no “rules as written” he won’t follow. He’ll follow whatever rules you have. But it won’t keep him from violating the spirit of the rules. He should be banned. Period.

Yes. (PS, because Internet tone is confusing sometimes, I want to be *totally* clear— my post was saying *Bluesky's* stance misunderstands the issue, and cosigning your point.)

Thank you. I was confused for a moment. I thought we were aligned, but wanted to clarify in case I somehow wasn’t clear in my point. And yes, Bluesky’s stance is definitely wrong here.

You have to understand the context. The context is that there is an organized, anonymous group, centered around a site named "Kiwifarms", that has as a goal driving trans people to suicide. Singal is *currently* describing himself as working with this group as part of his operations on the site.

Sorry for the random reply, but I'm trying to remember: doesn't the protocol or at least Blue sky allow you to view posts through the filter of different moderation services? Which is why there are more reporting options than just the bsky safety team url.

why would that help

Hi. Yes, that's a planned feature, and it's *interesting*— features like this would have made Twitter a better place— but I don't think it's an adequate solution in this case. There are a few basic problems with the idea, one being bsky mod services work for *incoming* posts, but not for *outgoing*.

I need a bit more explanation. I'm reading the screenshot and I cannot figure out how it applies to the situation. Like, Is it true that Singal post have had technical issues? The explanation doesn't make technical sense... Is that a lie to justify painting target on an innocent victim?

Oh, uh, so the context there was that someone somewhere figured out that you could set your username to some sort of invalid value that would cause bluesky threads to crash. And they started replying to all of Singal's threads with that username, so that nobody could read Singal's threads.

I was iffy on this -I think Signal is loathsome but at the same time I really hate "cancellation" and want people who I find loathsome here as long as they abide by the rules - until I found out kiwifarms are involved. Terrorist organization, they act in bad faith every time and only want to kill.

Singal, not Signal, damn autocorrect

Ok, I hadn't got to this point yet. But is there any other concrete evidence to tie this person to this kind of group and actually ban them? (Never heard of this term regarding pro harm groups)

Kiwifarm has been shut for a while. It started as something like voyeur fetich of sorts but quickly it became a way to bully mainly trans ppl. It has been blocked by the most absolutist neutral insentão entity of the internet, Cloudflare

Singal himself, as a writer, has been waging an escalating war on trans existence, launching from a 2018 Atlantic cover story that outed and misgendered its cover subject. He specializes in swaying "liberals" and centrists, targeting them with the wedge strategy of "well I support trans people BUT—"

Despite the oh-so-reasonable face he presents in his writing, if you run into him online he's a terror. It's easy to find stories of online critics of his who found their workplaces contacted demanding retribution. Singal openly states he's on Bluesky to "colonize" it. With, I guess, Kiwifarms users