There was, her original email talked about how the ADL says WPD is anti-Semitic. She asked a series of questions. The full response is here:
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Good morning Ms. Slevin.
The ADL's charitably-called "writing" on WPD had no shortage of outright lies about us, but this appears to be their SOP and so we are not at all surprised by this. It is ironic given what their abbreviation stands for, though. But that's neither here nor there, let's get to your questions:
Calling any of those creatures "active" users is an enormous stretch. Holly, for instance, had a whopping seven comments and, like the Rupnow and Henderson lunatics, lied about his age in order to access the site. Yes, he appears to have had an account. With seven banal comments over its entire existence. He also—like Rupnow and like Henderson—had a TikTok account that he was actually legitimately active on. As of yesterday (11 September 2025), a Google search for his TikTok handle even included thumbnails of him with a skull mask on, in front of a nazi 𝗕lack Sun background. We trust that you are contacting the globally enormous and infinitely problematic TikTok at much greater length than you are a small indie website held together with wishful thinking and caffeine binges?
As for your second question—yes, anti-semitic and racist views are indeed accessible on WPD. As are pro-semitic and anti-racist views, with our entire administration regularly being attacked and threatened by anti-Israel users because we are all adamantly pro-Israel and we routinely pin announcements to this effect and affirming the right of Jewish people to exist. We do not silence opposing viewpoints however, and we also do not silence racist viewpoints, whether these viewpoints are against 𝗕lack people, white people, Indians, robots, whatever. Our rules (visible on almost every page in the right sidebar) explicitly state the following:
"No explicit racism or bigotry.
Humor is fine, but comments that are just low effort shock value spam may be removed. Feel free to express your opinions but please try to express them in a reasonable manner. We also don't want Nazis or Nazi support."
As has always been the case. We strongly believe in fostering robust discourse whenever possible, and the users do have sometimes productive, often pointless, but always perfectly legal and healthy discussions on the ever-controversial topics of race and religion. We are a video hosting and social platform, our job is not to tell people what they are allowed to think and we are not nearly solipsist enough to believe that our personal opinions are any more or less valid than anyone else's just because we happen to own a website that they use. The free exchange of legal information and ideas is the most critically important part of any lasting and functional society and while these are admittedly much too lofty of concepts for a website called "watch people die dot tv" to rightly be using in an email to a journ*list, they are no less true for their context here.
You go on to say that the ADL says that pairing questionable commentary from users with tragic videos somehow facilitates real life violence. The ADL says a lot of things, many of which are utter nonsense from the most ironically named organization of all time. Internet janitors policing users' thoughts will never make the world a safer place, it will never make anyone more understanding of this or that, it will never do anything except silence legal speech that is at odds with the status quo.
With very few exceptions (all of which are spelled out in great detail, again, in the right sidebar of the website), any legal speech is permitted on WPD. The world would be a much better place if this was still the norm.
In closing—and yes, we realize this will never be published even close to in full, and based on past experiences any quotes will almost certainly be limited and taken wildly out of context—we do everything we possibly can to keep children off of the website. Far more than quite literally any other website. Both proactively, actively, and mechanically. We are literally always looking for ways to do more and we welcome any and all suggestions to that effect. Much like access to other abhorrent, legal content on the internet like pornography and communist literature, the blame lies squarely with the negligent, uninvolved parents who insist on giving their children pocket-sized internet-ready supercomputers like they previously would have given them a skateboard or a book, but inexplicably with even less parental oversight.
Again, we wish you luck in what we are sure will be very lengthy discussions with platforms used daily (TikTok, Groomercord, etc.) by these psychotic killers upon which they developed their demonic ideologies, found kindred spirits who encouraged them to do the unforgivable things they did, and posted content for ages that publicly telegraphed their intentions and were never once actioned by those platforms. If you have any followup questions for WPD, please don't hesitate to send them, but we do imagine the TikTok and Groomercord correspondence will take up far too much time for an Associated Press piece to bother fixating on a website that these unhinged losers used a handful of times when the actual culprits are just as accessible and orders of magnitude more rich with their digital footprints.