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It's funny, man. I have a pretty storied history with conspiracy theorists, often revolving around the issue of 'censorship'. I can't tell you how many times I've received death threats, harassing PMs or just general hate because people decry me as censoring things (I moderate /r/news and enforce our subreddit rules, crazy shit right?), removing comments, etc. Hell, Flytape was one of the main ringleaders of the massive witch hunt I received when I banned a holocaust denier from /r/news - decrying it because, of course, 'censorship'. They really claim to hate censorship.
And now you see these conspiracy theorists literally engaging in actual censorship. Banning users who disagree, removing posts, and hiding any mention to /r/XKCDComic. And it's funny, because it shows the true nature of these sorts of conspiracy theorists who are acting in such detriment to your subreddit. They don't care about censorship, they just want to have a steady argument to scream at the top of their lungs whenever someone does something they don't like. It's antisocial behaviour at its finest. They never learned how to communicate with other normal human beings, so they shift to cognitive dissonance as a way to win arguments by war of attrition.
Comment by leanrum at 28/01/2014 at 21:45 UTC
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It's not censorship on either side really, neither of you are the government.