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Re:Reddit’s CEO edited comments that criticized him by Lazare on Thursday November 24, 2016 @04:26AM (#13029262)
This is going to sound hard to believe, but...

...based on zero evidence, a bunch of alt-right types decided that a pizza shop in Washington was somehow the center of some sort of bizarre satanic pedophilia cult/ring/thing, and that further that Clinton was somehow involved.

It evolved into some sort of weird meme/circlejerk/echo chamber/witchhunt/circus, centered around /r/pizzagate, complete with doxxing, stalking, physical protesters outside the shop, trending twitter hashtags, all sorts of madness

Unsurprisingly, the sub was banned. And if you choose to ban a sub focused around uncovering (I can't believe I'm writing this) Clinton's pedophile sex ring, then obviously this is because you yourself are a pedophile (and probably a Clinton supporter, which is probably worse). Why else would you help coverup Clinton's satanic pedophile sex cult?

(If you're curious, the original spark behind all this is Wikileak's release of John Podesta's emails. In them he mentioned eating pizza there. Which is clearly code for child abuse, and Podesta is sort of close to Clinton, so Podesta eating pizza is literally Clinton abusing children. No, I'm not making this up, and yes, that's the sum total of the evidence behind this. Literally, the whole thing is based on the supposition that it's so unlikely that Podesta likes pizza that it must be a codeword for child abuse, because obviously child abuse is much more understandable than liking pizza, or something.)

Re:Reddit’s CEO edited comments that criticized him by shawabawa3 on Thursday November 24, 2016 @04:41AM (#13029336)
I think it's sort of based on the fact that "cheese pizza" is 4chan slang for child porn, and there was a picture sent by podesta of an immigrant child (and her family) eating pizza with a title like "feels good" (that they helped this family, interpreted by conspiracy theorists as they molested this girl)
Re:Reddit’s CEO edited comments that criticized him by ss248 on Thursday November 24, 2016 @07:11AM (#13029911)
>"cheese pizza" is 4chan slang

This is not true actually.

FBI and some forensic science experts used it internally way back before 4chan was even created.

Re:Reddit’s CEO edited comments that criticized him by xeeeeeeeeeeenu on Thursday November 24, 2016 @09:08AM (#13030363)
>FBI and some forensic science experts used it internally way back before 4chan was even created.

[citation needed]

Re:Reddit’s CEO edited comments that criticized him by akerro on Thursday November 24, 2016 @11:03AM (#13030947)
>[citation needed]

I was told wikipedia and Google work free of charge for everyone.

Re:Reddit’s CEO edited comments that criticized him by douglasisshiny on Thursday November 24, 2016 @11:03AM (#13030949)
I find this personally interesting. I work at the national center for missing and exploited children (ncmec), and in the exploited children division (ECD) we build systems to accept reports from internet companies, do analysis and send reports to law enforcement with said analysis.

When we go out for lunch or whatever, we refer to child porn as CP. It's a bit awkward to explain we house the largest collection of CP.

Re:Reddit’s CEO edited comments that criticized him by mercer on Thursday November 24, 2016 @12:35PM (#13031522)
Odd question perhaps, but what would happen if you were hacked and that collection was stolen? Would it be considered distribution of CP? Would the legal ramifications for your organization be different from any other kind of data breach?
Re:Reddit’s CEO edited comments that criticized him by douglasisshiny on Thursday November 24, 2016 @06:27PM (#13033432)
That's a fine question. I don't know the answer to it. Obviously our system admins take security seriously.
Re:Reddit’s CEO edited comments that criticized him by tptacek on Thursday November 24, 2016 @08:14AM (#13030143)
I think I speak for a great many of us when I say that I'd like a citation for the idea that even 4chan considered "cheese pizza" a code for child pornography.

Intellectually, it appears we're cruising along at approximately the "asphinctersayswhat" level of complexity.

Re:Reddit’s CEO edited comments that criticized him by pavel_lishin on Thursday November 24, 2016 @09:13AM (#13030385)
> I think I speak for a great many of us when I say that I'd like a citation for the idea that even 4chan considered "cheese pizza" a code for child pornography.

I've seen it referred to, jokingly, o 4chan and other forums.

For people who are baffled and/or puzzled, it's based on the acronym - child pornography - cp - cheese pizza.

Re:Reddit’s CEO edited comments that criticized him by napoleond on Thursday November 24, 2016 @09:18AM (#13030404)
Yep, here's an Urban Dictionary entry from 2010: http://www.urbandictionary.com/define.php?term=cheese%20pizz...
Re:Reddit’s CEO edited comments that criticized him by BickNowstrom on Thursday November 24, 2016 @10:17AM (#13030708)
http://knowyourmeme.com/memes/post-cp

> Post CP is an acronym in which CP can have a variety of meanings. Initially used as an acronym for 4chan posters to indirectly mention or request a child pornography thread, in later years the acronym became commonly associated with the posting of other subjects with the same first letters (C & P, most notably “Cheese Pizza”) to parody prohibited request threads or to troll those who hope to find child pornography.

We Are Anonymous - Inside the Hacker World of LulzSec, Anonymous and the Global Cyber Insurgency (2013) Parmy Olson

> There was also "u jelly?," a way of asking if someone was jealous, and "cheese pizza," or "CP", slang for child porn. More shrewd 4chan users would start discussion threads about literal cheese pizza, including photos of pizzas, and add hidden links to a child porn archive within the image code -- accessed by opening the pizza images in a text program instead of an image viewer.

Re:Reddit’s CEO edited comments that criticized him by tothepixel on Thursday November 24, 2016 @11:31AM (#13031138)
The usage of code words and symbols by Comet Pizza and Besta Pizza are mapped to an FBI document that was uncovered. There's also been strange phrases uncovered in the Podesta emails that seem to indicate that code words are in use. Additionally, people have found hidden data in JPGs sent around, which appear to be hashes that were placed after the closing JPG headers. Not sure I believe any of it, but it's definitely interesting.
Re:Reddit’s CEO edited comments that criticized him by xeeeeeeeeeeenu on Thursday November 24, 2016 @12:01PM (#13031295)
Could you link that FBI document explaining pedo-slang that Podesta was allegedly using?
Re:Reddit’s CEO edited comments that criticized him by BickNowstrom on Thursday November 24, 2016 @02:37PM (#13032287)
AFAIK there is no such document. The only sourcing for the slang terms was an anonymous 4chan post.

    “hotdog” = boy

    “pizza” = girl

    “cheese” = little girl

    “pasta” = little boy

    “ice cream” = male prostitute

    “walnut” = person of colour

    “map” = semen

    “sauce” = orgy
https://twitter.com/JaredWyand/status/794284672675147776

The FBI document detailing the symbols can be found here: https://wikileaks.org/wiki/FBI_pedophile_symbols

The similarities were rather striking. One pizza place even changed their logo shortly after the comparisons were drawn. This only added more fuel to the fire. http://i.imgur.com/GIRxh8r.jpg

Myself being a huge fan of conspiracy theory I've seen this before: the minds become focussed on finding evidence, discarding Occam's razor, and mining for all the nuggets. What remains are coincidences that appear too good to be random. Compare with the "backwards playing record hidden messages" hype. Once someone points it out to you, your mind starts hearing it too.

P.S.: The "hashes" found in the .jpg images were a dead end / the result of pareidolia.

Re:Reddit’s CEO edited comments that criticized him by DanBC on Thursday November 24, 2016 @02:47PM (#13032339)
https://file.wikileaks.org/file/FBI-pedophile-symbols.pdf

This document says a heart within a heart is symbol for GirlLover - symbolizes a relationship between an adult and a minor girl.

Wait 'til the conspiracy theorists see the logo for a multinational ice-cream company:

https://duckduckgo.com/?q=walls+ice+cream+logo&ia=images

https://imgur.com/a/8Yo0M

Re:Reddit’s CEO edited comments that criticized him by BickNowstrom on Thursday November 24, 2016 @03:38PM (#13032618)
They actually did, and then they tried to find connections between the two. Turning up stuff like:

https://twitter.com/ClintonGlobal/status/651606553884258304

(A Unilever and Clinton Foundation cooperation found in https://wikileaks.org/podesta-emails/emailid/1596)

and some older abuse charges brought up against people connected with Unilever.

See also: https://webcache.googleusercontent.com/search?q=cache:AfaAe2...

Also consider the possibility that the pedo symbology was inspired by the ice cream logo (and not the other way around).

But most likely just a (meaningful) coincidence. Hearts and spirals are common design elements after all.

Re:Reddit’s CEO edited comments that criticized him by tptacek on Thursday November 24, 2016 @04:19PM (#13032833)
So basically this is troll numerology.
Re:Reddit’s CEO edited comments that criticized him by BickNowstrom on Thursday November 24, 2016 @04:59PM (#13033038)
Yes, in part. But don't underestimate the deliberate black, grey, and white propaganda elements of all this (see also: "meme magick").

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Black_propaganda

http://knowyourmeme.com/memes/meme-magic

Re:Reddit’s CEO edited comments that criticized him by CmdrSprinkles on Thursday November 24, 2016 @04:35AM (#13029307)
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Jesus Hubert Christ I think Reddit managed to out-detective the folk who accused a victim of being a terrorist.

Thanks, I guess. That, in a way that horrifies me due to what it means about my brain, makes sense now.

Re:Reddit’s CEO edited comments that criticized him by OberstKrueger on Thursday November 24, 2016 @08:18AM (#13030163)
If you're referring to the missing guy who they thought was part of the Boston Marathon bombing, that was also reddit.
Re:Reddit’s CEO edited comments that criticized him by CmdrSprinkles on Thursday November 24, 2016 @08:34AM (#13030234)
And it used to be the gold standard of the idiocy that are Reddit Detectives. There is now a new one.
Re:Reddit’s CEO edited comments that criticized him by cryoshon on Thursday November 24, 2016 @11:31AM (#13031136)
though I think that the pizzagate group are largely crazy, you did forget the cornerstone of their theory: the podestas as well as the pizza shop in question have multitudes of disturbing art featuring children in sexual and vulnerable situations. that, and also the instagram of the owner has many pictures of children in compromising positions.... as "jokes".
Re:Reddit’s CEO edited comments that criticized him by golergka on Thursday November 24, 2016 @12:33PM (#13031506)
Can you please provide some links?
Re:Reddit’s CEO edited comments that criticized him by Lazare on Thursday November 24, 2016 @08:06PM (#13033790)
I believe he's referring to some fake, poorly photoshopped screencaps of what was claimed to be the restaurant's instagram feed. No

But of course, the fact that nobody can find the actual alleged instagram photos is just proof of the coverup!

Re:Reddit’s CEO edited comments that criticized him by Raphmedia on Thursday November 24, 2016 @09:35AM (#13030488)
The thing is, that's not surprising at all. 4chan and Reddit does this kind of things ALL THE TIME.

The Reddit's CEO should have been made aware of such troll'ish behavior. He responded in the worst way possible.

Re:Reddit’s CEO edited comments that criticized him by IndianAstronaut on Thursday November 24, 2016 @10:08AM (#13030661)
Reminds me of this. Slightly nsfw.

https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=THEv9kSVJw0

Re:Reddit’s CEO edited comments that criticized him by duncan_bayne on Thursday November 24, 2016 @04:40AM (#13029329)
Re:Reddit’s CEO edited comments that criticized him by BickNowstrom on Thursday November 24, 2016 @10:57AM (#13030918)
This used to be tied in, but then it was found that Trump also had connections to Epstein, and so this was promptly dropped.

> “I’ve known Jeff for fifteen years. Terrific guy,” Trump told New York Magazine for a 2002 profile of Epstein. “He’s a lot of fun to be with. It is even said that he likes beautiful women as much as I do, and many of them are on the younger side. No doubt about it — Jeffrey enjoys his social life.”

http://dailycaller.com/2016/10/09/the-friendship-between-tru...

Going meta-conspiracy. Perhaps the pizzagate stuff was a psyops pushed to detract from other, more relevant, stories.

Re:Reddit’s CEO edited comments that criticized him by XJOKOLAT on Thursday November 24, 2016 @08:12AM (#13030136)
When you think you've heard it all ...
Re:Reddit’s CEO edited comments that criticized him by thinline on Thursday November 24, 2016 @04:35AM (#13029305)
Like I said in the other comment, nothing to see.