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Re:The Now-Defunct Firms Behind 8chan, QAnon by ALittleLight on Friday October 23, 2020 @11:46PM (#24876782)
I don't think it's appropriate to say things like "Stop it". Please do me the courtesy of not treating me like a child and acting like you are instructing me.

The QAnon conspiracy is about pedophiles in government. The Rotterham scandal is about pedophiles enabled by government. The Epstein case is a mix of pedophiles and government. It's not crazy to suggest that pedophiles are mixed up with the government. We have multiple contemporary cases of this happening now.

Furthermore, it is exactly the tendency to censor speech which enabled the Rotterham scandal to endure for so long. Because people were censored for fear of causing offense hundreds of children were raped and victims were ignored. That's an extremely relevant example to a case where people are saying we must not permit people to talk about offensive things.

Re:The Now-Defunct Firms Behind 8chan, QAnon by newacct583 on Saturday October 24, 2020 @09:40AM (#24879156)
> It's not crazy to suggest that pedophiles are mixed up with the government.

Yes. It. Is. Because that suggestion requires evidence, which Q Does. Not. Have. Rotherham is not evidence for Q. Epstein is not evidence for Q. Rotherham and Epstein existing in history are not a license to make shit up about democrats and pretend it's the truth.

Re:The Now-Defunct Firms Behind 8chan, QAnon by ALittleLight on Saturday October 24, 2020 @12:04PM (#24879985)
I've not said Epstein and Rotherham were evidence for Q. I've said they're examples of pedophiles intermixed with governments and examples of where holding high standards for what is appropriate to say resulted in the rape of innumerable children.

My point is not "Because Epstein therefore Q" but rather "We should allow speculation and conspiracies, even hurtful, hateful, or baseless, because the alternative is restricting what people can say, and such restrictions enabled and perpetuated some horrible crimes of a similar nature that happened recently."

Re:The Now-Defunct Firms Behind 8chan, QAnon by supernovae on Saturday October 24, 2020 @12:17AM (#24876899)
This makes no sense.

Trump has several claims of rape against him, has been known to be on Pedophilia flights and private trips with Epstein and walked in on pageant changing rooms and other things.

If QAnon was about pedophilia, it would be about pedophilia. BUt its not.

It's really about projection. Make enemies of people with baseless claims so they believe its true.

Sad really.

He's using your desire to not be censored to fill your desire for hate. And anyone who disagrees with your hate violates your freedom to talk about it. Everything you don't believe in is fake news.

It's a reality distortion field.

Re:The Now-Defunct Firms Behind 8chan, QAnon by alimw on Saturday October 24, 2020 @06:54AM (#24878358)
Since you can't even spell Rotherham, I'll not give much weight to your analysis of the reasons behind the police failure there.
Re:The Now-Defunct Firms Behind 8chan, QAnon by ALittleLight on Saturday October 24, 2020 @11:59AM (#24879963)
Since you evaluate arguments based on the spelling of proper nouns from foreign places I'm afraid I can't bring myself to care about the esteem with which you regard my analysis.
Re:The Now-Defunct Firms Behind 8chan, QAnon by alimw on Saturday October 24, 2020 @01:32PM (#24880655)
It's not just any foreign place is it? It's the foreign place you've been spouting off about so authoritatively
Re:The Now-Defunct Firms Behind 8chan, QAnon by ALittleLight on Saturday October 24, 2020 @02:40PM (#24881074)
Odd, that in a conversation about balancing the benefits of free speech with the harms of it, and when discussing the example of an organized conspiracy of child rapists acting in the UK with the tacit consent of the government for decades, you've chosen to fixate on a minor spelling error.