The harassment audit counts how many accounts blocked by Aaron Rodericks, Bluesky's Head of Trust and Safety, had sent him posts of two kinds. This page shows what those two kinds look like, using posts the audit counted.
Content warning. The posts below accuse a named person of pedophilia and tell him to kill himself. They are quoted as examples of abuse. Nothing here is evidence that any accusation in them is true.
Every post was written by an account that was later blocked, at most one post per account, drawn at random from the confirmed set. Authors are not named. Other accounts, links, and the names of other people and organisations the posts accuse are masked like this. Dates are given to the month.
Pedojacketing
Pedojacketing is calling someone a pedophile, or implying it, to discredit them. The audit counted a post when it aimed that at him personally: calling him a pedophile or groomer, or saying he protects or sides with pedophiles. It found 207 such posts from 137 blocked accounts. 10 are shown here.
“He protects pedophiles”
The most common form does not call him a pedophile outright. It says he defends, enables or supports them, usually while demanding that he ban someone else the post calls one. Criticising a moderation decision was not counted. Saying he personally sides with child abusers was.
Why is @aaron.bsky.team endangering BlueSky users by enabling pedophiles and people who want to do us harm?
He needs to do the right thing and ban these obvious threats before this website dies. The only thing this place has going for it is not being Twitter. There are so many other places.
hey accountaccount @aaron.bsky.team do yall plan to do anything about the transphobic pedophile named person? This guy should be banned for being an absolutely disgusting piece of trash but it seems yall love being silent about this shit?
I've now spent multiple hours stamping leather for an Xmas gift.... My arms and hands are noodly.
Also fuck @aaron.bsky.team for fucking over the community that made this app take off to defend a pedo.
🌹 thanks for abandoning your users over petty grudges and supporting pedophilia
real good look for you and Bsky
I'm just glad you took some time away from your full time job of defending pedophilia to shit out this non-explanation.
this, from a man who's friends with infamous anti-trans "activist" and vicious pedophile named person
The “teen porn” accusation
A second strand alleges that he liked or watched pornography tagged “teen”, and builds from there to calling him a danger to children. Posts were counted when they said or clearly implied minors. Posts that only repeated the allegation, without that step, were labelled ambiguous and appear in the audit's wider reading, not here.
the fact that @aaron.bsky.team was liking #teen porn kinda makes me wonder about his past associations with pro-pedophile organization named organisation, as well as his chummy relationship with high-profile named organisation supporter account
like this apparent connection should not be overlooked!
Phew! While we were talking, it would seem bluesky's head of gooning to kids has improved both trust and safety yet again!
He removed a post I made consisting entirely of a wordless picture of a streamer because he thought it constituted a death threat.
I'm glad we have such a tireless hero. 🫡
you're a liability to this site and you should've been fired 5 major public fuckups ago. #teen #teenporn #jailbait <- tagging so you see it when you're gooning on the job
if i was a trust and safety executive who got caught looking at teen porn i would simply leave csa survivors tf alone but i guess you're built different
Suicide-baiting
Suicide-baiting is telling someone to kill themselves, or wishing that they would. It is much rarer in this data: 8 posts from 7 blocked accounts, and none from accounts that were not blocked. 7 are shown here.
Told to do it
Some posts are plain instructions, sometimes naming a method.
Eat shit you bastard go jump into traffic you won't be missed
how are you sooooo fucking bad at this?
fucking kill yourself.
I want you to go to Home Depot, and buy a rope….
@aaron.bsky.team, you should eat a can of shit and jump off a bridge. waffles.
Wished or implied
Others stop short of an instruction. They say he ought to feel suicidal, or ask why he has not ended it.
Tough guy posting with a meme you can't even post the gif version of on this busted ass website. To a woman who's husband has been kidnapped by ICE. That you suspended because she made you feel bad. How do you not just end it after acting like this in public?
@aaron.bsky.team hey hope the state builds an oppressive society around you and targets you in such a way that you feel suicidal. Then I hope that someone wrings their hands and complains about being yelled at instead of helping you
i would honestly just kms if i was this guy
How to read these
These are a sample, not the worst cases. They were drawn at random, one per account, so they show the typical range.
They are the clear cases. Each was labelled against a fixed rubric as aimed at him and then confirmed by the reviewer. Borderline posts are not shown.
Most blocked accounts wrote nothing like this. About one in nine blocked accounts has a post of either kind on record. The audit has the full figures and their limits.
The wording is verbatim apart from the masks. Spelling and punctuation are the authors' own.