• CriticalResist8@lemmygrad.ml
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    remember ghislaine maxwell was a mod on r/worldnews (one of the major subreddits, also very racist and neoliberal) and for years they had an r/jailbait subreddit dedicated to posting pictures of underage girls in the most compromising positions they could find! The creator of that subreddit even received an award from reddit themselves.

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      There was a jailbait subreddit?! Why the fuck would someone even visit a public forum on that topic?!

      Like just from a self preservation perspective, that is such an easy way for someone to socially destroy you if it’s ever found out.

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        Yeah, it used to be the biggest subreddit on the website, with tons of ‘Jailbait’ material posted daily. The mods were powermods of numerous other subreddits- including that Maxwell account. It got taken down eventually, but only after years of it having topped Reddit’s charts. It was a big fiasco back then.

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      I would say reddit is sorta like a social club in the front room when you walk in and then in the back room, it’s an intelligence operation. It can look very innocent on the surface: make a forum, chat about things you like! And then you realize how much it is controlled and modulated in a direction that matches the imperialist status quo.

      I want to say something like… in a nutshell, western “intelligence” figured out a way to change the form of decentralized, niche internet forums to something they could centralize and control more easily. This and other forms of “social media”. Now that people are starting to see how shit it gets as a result, they’re gradually moving back toward decentralized forums.

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    Wasn’t Eppsteins girlfriend in charge of a department there?

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      u/maxwellhill is strongly alleged to be the account of Ghislaine Maxwell, his girlfriend and heavily involved in his operations, also the mod in multiple frontpage subs.