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

/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.

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.

Of course, now any FBI investigation would have to take into account that reddit employees are known to silently edit comments.

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.

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.

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.

Don't just write it off. They are onto something! I've seen many redditors solve real life mysteries.

Like the Boston marathon bomber?

People are missing the satire here.

A bit of backstory: https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/the-intersect/wp/2016/11...

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

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.

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.

It is a DC pizzeria

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.

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.

Sounds like a consensual hallucination.

Lot of that going around these days.

"Investigating" is a pretty generous word there... There's not enough tinfoil in the world...

"investigating" in the same way they "investigated" a daycare and the Boston bombing.

They were just doxxing people left and right. I am not sure how that constitutes an "investigation"

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