Which conspiracy theory has been vindicated?
This is an example of a very common mistake that leads to a lot of animosity, which is that "those people who said X" and "these people saying they never said X" are the same people (this is fueled by the misunderstanding that there are essentially only two groups of people, which is an illusion that most political systems reinforce).
I’m a mod on Reddit, that’s not a conspiracy.
Got a source on this?
In other words, there is no evidence. Right?
On the flip side, these conspiracy theories sound more like fabrications from loons caught in their little world.
Prove me wrong and provide the single best example of objective evidence you are able to produce.
Go on.
1. The account's name is maxwellhill and Ghislaine Maxwell's surname is Maxwell and used to live at a place she referred to as Maxwell Hill.
2. The account was the first to reach 1m reddit karma and in the congratulatory post Alexis Ohanian revealed that he knew the poster in real life and that they'd been there since almost the beginning.
3. Ghislaine Maxwell is known to have attended events with Reddit staff in the early days, as confirmed by former CEO of reddit Ellen Pao.
4. maxwellhill has a December birthday, Ghislaine Maxwell's birthday is 25th December.
5. maxwellhill stopped posting just 2 days before GM's arrest, previously they'd posted almost every day for 14 years.
6. The few gaps when maxwellhill was not posting align with dates GM is known to have attended events including her mother's funeral.
7. GM's father was a known and prolific media manipulator, maxwellhill was repeatedly accused of manipulating reddit before the arrest.
8. maxwellhill posted prolifically about ocean conservation, GM had a startup called TerraMar which was focussed on ocean conservation.
9. maxwellhill mostly uses British English, GM is from Britain.
10. maxwellhill repeatedly complained about over-zealous child protection laws, posted articles suggesting CSAM should be legalised.
11. maxwellhill was careful to stress the difference between pedophilia and ephebophilia - a distinction important to Epstein and his apologists but not to most normal people.
12. maxwellhill has still not posted to reddit since the arrest, despite it having significant political and financial value.
13. After all of the noise of the accusations, no one at Reddit has actually denied that GM was maxwellhill.
I'm not saying this is conclusive, hence saying "probably", but that's a lot of bits.
Last commented few days before her arrest.
But of course, it's a link to /r/conspiracy and as such is tainted, but stopped clocks and all that
> I befriended a Korean pastor and his wife (long story there) where I live and we would meet occassionally for dinner.
> One day he asked if I could help teach some of his "students" conversational English. I didn't realise that he meant adults undergoing intensive training in Korea and abroad as missionaries for posting to other parts of the world. I thought he meant local teenagers who wanted to be more conversant in English - pronunciation, diction etc
> So I volunteered.
So, if people start looking for reddit accounts that mention maxwell and dodgy stuff, I can see why they'd stop posting.
That account is/was enormously powerful, with the ability to determine which stories reached the frontpage and which didn't. That makes it politically and financially very valuable, and I don't think someone would just give up that because of association with Maxwell when they could have just posted a single comment saying "I am not Ghislaine Maxwell" and everyone would have forgotten about it.