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I've been here for 8 years on reddit, and things sure have changed a lot.
/r/conspiracy is one of the few remaining places on reddit for real news. This sub looks like what the front page of reddit looked like for the first 3 years of its existence. It was about exposing things, the real truth, and learning about the world. This is what Aaron Schwartz wanted, before they killed him and killed reddit.
All the uncomfortable truths are delegated to this ridiculous-sounding "
/r/conspiracy" which drives people away who are on the fence. These things that are often talked about on this sub
are conspiracies, but they're also news, they're speculation or facts about how the world actually works beyond the face of things as we see them. This label of "conspiracy" is a form of censorship in itself, it pushes all the big deal stories to this one small corner of reddit.
If you're newer to reddit, 4 years or less, I bet there was one day when you found this sub. I bet you went through the frontpage of this sub and couldn't believe what you were reading. You probably thought "Why aren't these things being discussed on the news subreddit or the politics subreddit, if they are true?" You may have looked in to a specific story or two, and started realizing that there is something to many of the things talked about here. So you subscribed to the sub, you started reading it regularly. Maybe you decided you don't care about this divisive label of "conspiracy theorist", that it means nothing to you. What idiot would be afraid of theorizing about potential conspiracies, given the endless
lists of historical examples? What kind of sheep is so trained to be afraid of the truth that they run away from it thinking they're doing themselves a favor? You start to question things in a deeper way once the tricks of culture become more obvious
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