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axolotl_peyotl 1 point ago +1 / -0

So this is about me. Here's my statement:

Since I've been silenced on reddit, I'd like to take the opportunity to respond to this unfortunate article about me from the daily dot:

https://www.dailydot.com/debug/r-conspiracy-axolotl-peyotl-banned-reddit/

This article is now being cited elsewhere:

https://gizmodo.com/reddit-bans-r-conspiracy-moderator-and-r-donaldtrump-1846021265

Let's address it piece by piece:

Reddit admins said the action came after "repeated violations of our content policy."

The only notices of "violations" I've received from the reddit admins in 10+ years on the site are the following:

  1. A few years ago I used the phrase "shoot the messenger" when describing a whistleblower's unjust punishment. I was told using this phrase was a "call to violence."

  2. Shortly before the 2020 election, reddit banned ZeroHedge and TheGatewayPundit site-wide. I used an archived link to a ZH article and apparently this triggered a 7-day suspension which was given one day before the election. This effectively cut me off from my community at /r/conspiracy during the post-election fallout. In retrospect, I believe the timing of this suspension on the eve of the election was deliberate.

  3. On the 6th I shared a tweet from a blue check calling the events a "Constitutional" demonstration. Admins cited it as a "call to violence."

  4. One of my last threads on the morning of my permanent suspension was called "Night of Digital Long Knives: They're coming for us next"...probably one of my more prophetic threads. Admins said it was a "call to violence" and immediately suspended my account. Here's the thread:

https://old.reddit.com/r/conspiracy/comments/ksj8dg/night_of_the_digital_long_knives_theyre_coming/

I was definitely banned for wrongthink, and it was a long time coming...but more pressingly I was banned for ITALYGATE.

https://conspiracies.win/p/11RhKDYFUp/i-may-have-been-banned-from-redd/c/

I had pinned an Italygate thread at the top of /r/conspiracy for several days, and I'm convinced it resulted in "reddit conspiracies" being evoked on the Senate floor:

https://conspiracies.win/p/11RhOrwR07/this-footage-from-the-senate-got/c/

Here's the reddit thread that got me banned from reddit and removed as top moderator of /r/conspiracy:

https://old.reddit.com/r/conspiracy/comments/krozz6/italygate_obama_and_renzi_former_pm_of_italy/

Here's a post I made before my reddit ban when I noted that what was happening to that thread was stranger than anything I'd seen in 10+ years on reddit:

https://old.reddit.com/r/conspiracy/comments/ksfsi8/the_voting_comments_and_awards_on_the_pinned/

Let's get back to the hit piece from the daily dot.

The ban came hours after Sen. Tammy Duckworth (D-Ill.) called out “Reddit conspiracy theories” following the Capitol riot.

When those words came out of her mouth, /r/conspiracy collectively said "uh oh." The reddit admins ONLY act when they get negative press, and this was about as bad as it gets. Either they nuke the sub, or they cut off its head. They chose the latter. I'm grateful the sub didn't get the ax, but I fear it's merely operating on bought time.

By trying to overturn this election, they are placing more trust in Reddit conspiracy theories over the Constitution

It's my firm belief that Sen. Duckworth was trying to "get ahead" of the Italygate story, as my pinned thread was attracting more attention than any thread I'd ever made (30 awards and counting when it was removed).

There's no other recent "reddit conspiracy" that was getting as much attention to warrant that phrase being mentioned by a Senator.

r/conspiracy has remained a haven for fringe ideas

I'm SHOCKED, I tell you, that a conspiracy forum discusses fringe ideas. SHOCKED.

particularly those from the far-right.

Ah, the ol appeal to the "far right" boogeyman. /r/conspiracy is/was a forum dedicated to the free flow of ideas and information.

When reddit started systematically silencing every community that was even slightly right of center, I was always confused at the "outrage" when very predictably some of these voices came to /r/conspiracy so they could still have their voices heard. Did they think they would just shut up and go away?

Axolotl_Peyotl often shared this type of content

What "type of content"? Fringe? Well duh. I post about anti-gravity, ancient civilizations with high technology, etc. It's a CONSPIRACY forum. Hello.

with many of his recent posts promoting election fraud conspiracies.

Again, SHOCKING that someone interested in conspiracies would post conspiracy theories about an election rife with conspiracy. HEY READER, ARE YOU NOT OUTRAGED?!

In a final message to r/conspiracy, he pushed “Italygate,” which baselessly purports the election was fixed by an international coalition that includes President Barack Obama and a former Italian prime minister.

I "pushed" it did I? "Baseless" you say? The lady doth protest too much, methinks.

The move was also denounced by a number of commenters, some of whom called it “censorship.”

If you sort the stickied announcement thread on /r/conspiracy by "controversial", they're saying much more than just that:

https://old.reddit.com/r/conspiracy/comments/kslo0n/announcement_reddit_admins_have_removed_and/?sort=controversial

"The only reason axo was banned is Italygate. They're doing this today because he stickied one of the most damaging leak ever."

"He seriously gets banned after his italygate post? Are you guys blind to what is going on?"

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axolotl_peyotl 7 points ago +7 / -0

Also, @codemonkeyz banned.

Who else? Did this just happen?

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axolotl_peyotl 3 points ago +3 / -0

I copy/pasted basically all of my original vaccine work etc about a week ago to here (I saw this coming). I'll make a megathread combining them at some point.

Of note...I wasn't banned from reddit, I was "permanently suspended" so I think my threads are still accessible if that makes sense.

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axolotl_peyotl 53 points ago +53 / -0

I had no illusions of that. I was still on reddit precisely because they didn't have free speech and I wanted to be a thorn as long as I possibly could.

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axolotl_peyotl 22 points ago +22 / -0

You can ask u/Doggos. Mods here actually reached out to me via PM on my reddit account months ago to set up conspiracies.win and we still communicate on slack.

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axolotl_peyotl 387 points ago +392 / -5

TLDR:

  • I pinned a thread on /r/conspiracy saying Obama/ex-Italian PM stole the 2020 election, with receipts

  • it was brigaded more than almost any thread I've ever seen on reddit

  • signed affidavits/evidence supporting this theory were allegedly delivered to congress yesterday

  • congress was breached, disrupting the ability to present evidence when they reconvened

  • senator proceeds to warn about "reddit conspiracies" on senate floor

  • within 12 hours, the head moderator (me) of the /r/conspiracy sub is removed

  • pinned italygate thread is removed by remaining mods, despite my request that it stay up

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axolotl_peyotl 3 points ago +3 / -0

TLDR:

  • I pinned a thread on /r/conspiracy saying Obama/ex-Italian PM stole the 2020 election, with receipts

  • it was brigaded more than almost any thread I've ever seen on reddit

  • signed affidavits/evidence supporting this theory were allegedly delivered to congress yesterday

  • congress was breached, disrupting the ability to present evidence when they reconvened

  • senator proceeds to warn about "reddit conspiracies" on senate floor

  • within 12 hours, the head moderator (me) of the /r/conspiracy sub is removed

  • pinned italygate thread is removed by remaining mods, despite my request that it stay up

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axolotl_peyotl 1 point ago +2 / -1

looks like it picked up my thread I posted on /r/conspiracy. I saw his tweet less than a minute after he shared it then immediately posted on reddit. dunno why it shows the order that way.

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axolotl_peyotl 2 points ago +2 / -0

Grassley's office clarifies that he was meaning to explain what would happen if Pence had to step away during Wednesday's proceedings to count Electoral College votes. "Every indication we have is that the vice president will be there," Grassley's office said.

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axolotl_peyotl 21 points ago +24 / -3

Follow up tweet:

....Just a small portion of these votes give US a big and conclusive win in Georgia. Have they illegally destroyed ballots in Fulton County? After many weeks, we don’t yet even have a judge to hear this large scale voter fraud case. The only judge seems to be Stacey’s sister!

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axolotl_peyotl 1 point ago +1 / -0

Patrick Byrne has been acting really cryptic in his last few tweets, and then BOOM he comes out with this:

On Wednesday afternoon in the Georgia Senate Judiciary voted to have these ballots inspected. What happened next?

Rented Enterprise moving vans pulled up to the warehouse and began loading up. I will post that video promptly.

And then, a shredding company was engaged. They shredded everything. Not just a normal shredding either. They did not shred into long strips, or even tiny confetti: they did military-grade shredding down to tiny spitballs.

The video of the enterprise van is too big for me to upload right here. But trust me, there is a video of enterprise moving vans pulling up at 10 o’clock at night, after the Senate subcommittee voted to investigate the stuff, and they got loaded up.

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axolotl_peyotl 10 points ago +10 / -0

My 3rd morning WR sticky in a row!

Congrats to the team for the HUGE milestone of hitting #1!!!!

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