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„...getting called a pedophile constantly...“ Why?

ww520 10y ago
From what I have seen. It seems Reddit has shut down a subreddit whose people are in the midst of investigating pedophile rings.
- arama471 10y ago
  So /r/pizzagate was a subreddit convinced they'd found evidence of a pedophile ring in the government and more specifically implicating Hilary Clinton. They were recently shut down because they kept publishing people's information (which is against reddit ToS _even if said info is publicly available_). This prompted them to assume reddit admins were part of said ring. I assume /u/spez has been receiving accusations since.
  - threeseed 10y ago
    Based on zero evidence they believed that Podesta and Clinton were molesting children in the bathrooms of a NY Pizzeria. They then proceeding to post the owners information and make death threats against him and his staff. Absolutely despicable behaviour. And completely criminal.
    - ibejoeb 10y ago
      It is a DC pizzeria
      - cies 10y ago
        And there was some evidence. Like people hanging out with convicted pedos, quickly removing symbolics from their sites, emails in Podesta's inbox, and more.
        ibejoeb 10y ago
        You're getting downvoted because people don't like it, but you're right. People who don't like it don't read about it, and that gives rise to denial and lack of knowledge, like "in the bathrooms of a NY Pizzeria." If you think it's entirely implausible that there could be organized pedophilia operating out of DC, you're not being honest with yourself. Look at what happened in Norway 4 days ago. I'm not interested in discussing politics on HN--and I'm not referring solely to this theory--but I am concerned when people are not intellectually curious enough to consider even hear an argument.
  - rhizome 10y ago
    Sounds like a consensual hallucination.
    - adamrezich 10y ago
      Lot of that going around these days.
- JshWright 10y ago
  "Investigating" is a pretty generous word there... There's not enough tinfoil in the world...
- mejari 10y ago
  "investigating" in the same way they "investigated" a daycare and the Boston bombing.
- pavanky 10y ago
  They were just doxxing people left and right. I am not sure how that constitutes an "investigation"
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teraflop 10y ago
A bit of backstory: https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/the-intersect/wp/2016/11/23/fearing-yet-another-witch-hunt-reddit-bans-pizzagate/ https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/the-intersect/wp/2016/11...
noir_lord 10y ago
/r/the_Donald has this stupid conspiracy that a pizza parlour is a child sex ring and Clinton was involved, that became /r/pizzagate which the Admins tried to clean up because its retarded and was doxxing innocent people so they called the admins paedophiles. I feel stupider just for having had to type that..what a world we've built.
- threeseed 10y ago
  It's more than just stupid too. Innocent people have had death threats over seriously bizarre allegations. The FBI really should be involved and people charged.
  - Gargoyle 10y ago
    Of course, now any FBI investigation would have to take into account that reddit employees are known to silently edit comments.
  - noir_lord 10y ago
    If spez was going to do anything in retaliation he should have just renamed /r/the_Donald to /r/poes_law. That would have been elegant and not touched user history. I honestly can't tell with that sub at all. Its fascinating to visit like the redpill used to be, some very strange people out there.
    - threeseed 10y ago
      I'm not talking about spez. I am talking about the fact that the pizzeria owner and his staff have had death threats against them from members of the Reddit /r/pizzagate sub. The FBI should be investigating this and charging people.
      - marknutter 10y ago
        Honestly, why do people get riled up about death threats on the internet? How many death threats have resulted in actual deaths? I'd put the number at around zero.
Natsu 10y ago
They blocked /r/pizzagate (which is now on Voat - /v/pizzagate). People had been sending abusive comments to /u/spez for basically the entire election. As to what #pizzagate is, it's largely buried in searches now but this is a good intro: !!!!! NSFW !!!!! http://vigilantcitizen.com/vigilantreport/pizzagate-4chan-uncovered-sick-world-washingtons-occult-elite/amp/ http://vigilantcitizen.com/vigilantreport/pizzagate-4chan-un... !!!!! NSFW !!!!! Basically, some people found some really weird and creepy photos and weird emails in the Podesta dump and started digging. Things have kind of snowballed from there. Feel free to go back to the Podesta dump on Wikileaks and look things up for yourself. Just start searching for mentions of "pizza." A lot of the things have been taken down now and only exist as archive links, though.
- threeseed 10y ago
  Posting this sort of garbage is really inappropriate for HN. Here is a report from the NY Times (an actual respected organisation) who shows the damage this type of Fake News has: http://www.nytimes.com/2016/11/21/technology/fact-check-this-pizzeria-is-not-a-child-trafficking-site.html http://www.nytimes.com/2016/11/21/technology/fact-check-this...
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  - Natsu 10y ago
    They wanted to know what it was about, that's the best summary I know of and it has sources you can look up yourself, many of which aren't covered in your article. There is actual weird stuff that's provable at the core of this--a quick search of 'pizza' in the Podesta dumps will give you at least a few WTF moments. Yes, you can find unhinged conspiracy stuff written about this. I'm not aware of any proof of anyone committing crimes, nor am I going to claim anyone is guilty without evidence. But there's enough weird that people are going to be digging into this one for a while.
  - sergiotapia 10y ago
    The NY Times is no longer credible. Tainted source of information.

ww520 10y ago

From what I have seen. It seems Reddit has shut down a subreddit whose people are in the midst of investigating pedophile rings.

arama471 10y ago
So /r/pizzagate was a subreddit convinced they'd found evidence of a pedophile ring in the government and more specifically implicating Hilary Clinton. They were recently shut down because they kept publishing people's information (which is against reddit ToS _even if said info is publicly available_). This prompted them to assume reddit admins were part of said ring. I assume /u/spez has been receiving accusations since.
- threeseed 10y ago
  Based on zero evidence they believed that Podesta and Clinton were molesting children in the bathrooms of a NY Pizzeria. They then proceeding to post the owners information and make death threats against him and his staff. Absolutely despicable behaviour. And completely criminal.
  - ibejoeb 10y ago
    It is a DC pizzeria
    - cies 10y ago
      And there was some evidence. Like people hanging out with convicted pedos, quickly removing symbolics from their sites, emails in Podesta's inbox, and more.
      - ibejoeb 10y ago
        You're getting downvoted because people don't like it, but you're right. People who don't like it don't read about it, and that gives rise to denial and lack of knowledge, like "in the bathrooms of a NY Pizzeria." If you think it's entirely implausible that there could be organized pedophilia operating out of DC, you're not being honest with yourself. Look at what happened in Norway 4 days ago. I'm not interested in discussing politics on HN--and I'm not referring solely to this theory--but I am concerned when people are not intellectually curious enough to consider even hear an argument.
- rhizome 10y ago
  Sounds like a consensual hallucination.
  - adamrezich 10y ago
    Lot of that going around these days.
JshWright 10y ago
"Investigating" is a pretty generous word there... There's not enough tinfoil in the world...
mejari 10y ago
"investigating" in the same way they "investigated" a daycare and the Boston bombing.
pavanky 10y ago
They were just doxxing people left and right. I am not sure how that constitutes an "investigation"

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teraflop 10y ago

A bit of backstory: https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/the-intersect/wp/2016/11/23/fearing-yet-another-witch-hunt-reddit-bans-pizzagate/ https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/the-intersect/wp/2016/11...

noir_lord 10y ago

/r/the_Donald has this stupid conspiracy that a pizza parlour is a child sex ring and Clinton was involved, that became /r/pizzagate which the Admins tried to clean up because its retarded and was doxxing innocent people so they called the admins paedophiles. I feel stupider just for having had to type that..what a world we've built.

threeseed 10y ago
It's more than just stupid too. Innocent people have had death threats over seriously bizarre allegations. The FBI really should be involved and people charged.
- Gargoyle 10y ago
  Of course, now any FBI investigation would have to take into account that reddit employees are known to silently edit comments.
- noir_lord 10y ago
  If spez was going to do anything in retaliation he should have just renamed /r/the_Donald to /r/poes_law. That would have been elegant and not touched user history. I honestly can't tell with that sub at all. Its fascinating to visit like the redpill used to be, some very strange people out there.
  - threeseed 10y ago
    I'm not talking about spez. I am talking about the fact that the pizzeria owner and his staff have had death threats against them from members of the Reddit /r/pizzagate sub. The FBI should be investigating this and charging people.
    - marknutter 10y ago
      Honestly, why do people get riled up about death threats on the internet? How many death threats have resulted in actual deaths? I'd put the number at around zero.

Natsu 10y ago

They blocked /r/pizzagate (which is now on Voat - /v/pizzagate). People had been sending abusive comments to /u/spez for basically the entire election. As to what #pizzagate is, it's largely buried in searches now but this is a good intro: !!!!! NSFW !!!!! http://vigilantcitizen.com/vigilantreport/pizzagate-4chan-uncovered-sick-world-washingtons-occult-elite/amp/ http://vigilantcitizen.com/vigilantreport/pizzagate-4chan-un... !!!!! NSFW !!!!! Basically, some people found some really weird and creepy photos and weird emails in the Podesta dump and started digging. Things have kind of snowballed from there. Feel free to go back to the Podesta dump on Wikileaks and look things up for yourself. Just start searching for mentions of "pizza." A lot of the things have been taken down now and only exist as archive links, though.

threeseed 10y ago
Posting this sort of garbage is really inappropriate for HN. Here is a report from the NY Times (an actual respected organisation) who shows the damage this type of Fake News has: http://www.nytimes.com/2016/11/21/technology/fact-check-this-pizzeria-is-not-a-child-trafficking-site.html http://www.nytimes.com/2016/11/21/technology/fact-check-this...
- deleted 10y ago
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- Natsu 10y ago
  They wanted to know what it was about, that's the best summary I know of and it has sources you can look up yourself, many of which aren't covered in your article. There is actual weird stuff that's provable at the core of this--a quick search of 'pizza' in the Podesta dumps will give you at least a few WTF moments. Yes, you can find unhinged conspiracy stuff written about this. I'm not aware of any proof of anyone committing crimes, nor am I going to claim anyone is guilty without evidence. But there's enough weird that people are going to be digging into this one for a while.
- sergiotapia 10y ago
  The NY Times is no longer credible. Tainted source of information.