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Re:WTF Nextdoor? Over 130 clicks to disable email and push n... by anon2020dot00 on Tuesday June 21, 2022 @05:32AM (#31822023)
Interesting so how deep does the conspiracy go? Is a big portion of Reddit mods trying to cover-up "Epstein" crimes?
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Re:WTF Nextdoor? Over 130 clicks to disable email and push n... by dane-pgp on Tuesday June 21, 2022 @07:55AM (#31822847)
> Is a big portion of Reddit mods trying to cover-up "Epstein" crimes?

No, just the ones that were linked to u/maxwellhill, the lead moderator of r/worldnews, r/politics, and r/technology:

https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-8506313/Ghislaine-M...

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Re:WTF Nextdoor? Over 130 clicks to disable email and push n... by ajsnigrutin on Tuesday June 21, 2022 @06:14AM (#31822253)
Nah, they decided some subreddits are "bad for advertisers" during the covid time, and /r/conspiracy got put on a long list of "undesirables". The precedent for the was /r/the_donald before that).

Some more radical pro-censorship subreddits decided to just ban anyone posting on any of those subreddits, and the sentiment spread to larger subreddits, like eg. /r/pics).

Combine conspiracies and covid, and "spreading covid fake news" was the official reason to ban people just by posting to any of such subreddits.

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