Hey guys, this one's a doozy! I thought this story was worthy of being told. I already feel better having written it all out.
But if long-winded diatribes aren't your cup of tea, I won't be offended if you skip this one. ngl though, it's got some juicy bits. I'd love to know how all of this jives with the experiences and observations of many of you out there.
Because awareness of the great vaccine deception was spreading on r/conspiracy, this issue became the preferred focus of reddit’s narrative managers. As a moderator of r/conspiracy and a vocal vaccine skeptic, it was like I had attached an irresistibly powerful shill magnet to my reddit account. To make matters worse, I was eventually elected as the “head” moderator of r/conspiracy, a story which deserves its own brief diversion.
It’s common for certain “power mods” to be involved with multiple mainstream subreddits. These users are frequently afforded special protection from the admin team, and it’s not uncommon for the admins to censor entire comments and threads that even mention the user name of one of these power mods. One such mod was the creator of r/conspiracy, an account that had remained in the “top” position on the team since its inception. The only real significance of the mod hierarchy on reddit is that a senior mod has the ability to remove anyone else with a lower rank. As a result, the top mod on the list is accountable only to the reddit admins.
As the rest of reddit was purged or homogenized, r/conspiracy was seeming like the last place that stayed true to the vision of pioneers like Aaron Swartz. Control of r/conspiracy was becoming a tangible desire for the narrative managers. Unfortunately for them, the mod team was populated by actual conspiracy theorists. We were r/conspiracy users too. We had done the research, and the time, to show where our allegiance lay.
The r/conspiracy mod team realized that having a potentially rogue power mod at the top of the list, sitting there like a weird digital Sword of Damocles, was not in the best interest of the sub. We unanimously decided to petition the admins to have this mod removed, a practice not uncommon when head mods are inactive for long periods of time. In addition, the r/conspiracy mod team unanimously voted for me to take over as head mod. I would become the “top mind” of the “top minds” of reddit!
But the admins dragged their feet. At first, they ignored our requests. To be frank, I begin suspecting that our “absent” head mod would suddenly “reemerge” and reclaim his position. But that never happened. Instead, I was eventually contacted by the admins and given instructions on how to remove the missing mod using the “subreddit request” feature. After complying, I was shocked to see the entire r/conspiracy mod team had just been removed, including me! I was then re-added as the sole moderator of r/conspiracy. In addition, the counters documenting our time spent as moderators were permanently reset.
Not surprisingly, the optics of the sudden removal of the entire moderator team weren’t great. I invited back the other mods that were recently online and immediately pinned a thread at the top of the forum explaining I hadn’t a clue what was happening and that I was trying to rectify the situation. It was too late. The narrative managers had pounced in blatantly pre-packaged form, claiming that I had attempted a “coup” to install myself as “dictator.” Even though the admins chimed in and apologized for the “glitch,” the damage was done. Planned or not, their lackluster response was extremely telling.
With myself at the helm, r/conspiracy entered a new phase of the information war. The attacks against our community were constant and coordinated. They employed every forum sliding tactic imaginable. They flooded us with nonsensical conspiracies. They harassed and brigaded our genuine contributors. Eventually, the mod team took action.
Our first solution was meant to combat the constant deluge of spam and fake conspiracy theories meant to drown out legitimate content. To do so, we decided to implement a so-called “submission statement” rule requiring anyone sharing a link on r/conspiracy to summarize the content of their post for our community. This summary had to be cogent and use at least a couple of sentences.
If this simple summary wasn’t produced in a comment by OP within several minutes, the thread was automatically removed. This did wonders to cut down on spam. I’ll admit my own contributions to the sub were somewhat curtailed as I found myself spending more time summarizing and discussing the article instead of posting multiple links at a time. This change increased the quality of discussion, and despite being somewhat inconvenient, it significantly cut down on spam and other diversions from bad actors.
It can’t be stressed enough that we were very careful not to include in this rule a requirement for the thread to be a universally-acknowledged “conspiracy” despite this seeming contradiction. One of the most common, and painfully obvious, tactics of the shills is to flood every thread with the comment “where’s the conspiracy?” After all, shouldn’t a forum called “conspiracy” require every thread be a “conspiracy?” This is yet another semantic trap.
Amusingly, the same narrative managers that routinely harass the r/conspiracy mod team for being “tyrants” would in the same breath demand that the mods should be the arbiters of what constitutes a “conspiracy.” Mandating a “conspiracy” requirement for our forum would essentially give the moderators the final word on what is, or is not, a “conspiracy.” r/conspiracy has always been dedicated to freedom of expression and does not grant a handful of moderators unilateral power based on mere semantics.
When you’ve been censored by the entirety of reddit, r/conspiracy is the last place you can still speak your mind. Sometimes people just want to have their voice heard. Requiring them to phrase their feelings as a “conspiracy” would be counter to the very ethos of our forum. That’s why the “where’s the conspiracy?” forum slide was so pernicious and transparent. It was meant to force OP to justify being on r/conspiracy instead of spending time and effort unraveling the subject at hand.
This observation led to the next major rule change on our sub: the relegating of this type of rhetoric to only one specific comment chain per thread. It would’ve been excessive to outright ban “where’s the conspiracy?” meta commentary, but the deluge of comments spouting some iteration of “r/conspiracy sucks” that flooded our forum had to be addressed and managed. Every thread was suffocating with this banality.
As a solution, we automated a pinned comment to be placed at the top of every thread on r/conspiracy. This comment is highly visible (it’s at the top!) and is specifically meant for meta observations that reference OP and the broader conspiracy community. Any other meta references in the rest of the thread and not replying to the pinned meta comment were in violation of our sub’s rules.
Repeated offenders of this rule, like with any other rule, could expect to be banned. Suffice to say, this ruffled all the feathers. The ability to viciously slander our community throughout the comment section was an essential tool of the narrative managers, and this single change dealt them a considerable blow.
Meanwhile, my “ascension” as head mod made me public enemy #1 for the shill squad. For years, on any give day I would be personally featured on a solid majority of threads on the front page of TMOR. To say their obsession over me was pathological would be a gross understatement. It was certainly deliberate.
Thousands of times I watched my content get organic support on r/conspiracy, only to have this momentum completely reversed the moment the comment or thread would be linked by TMOR. They enjoyed boasting that they could flaunt the rules of reddit that forbids precisely such activity. Here’s extensive proof:
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Reddit admins have even been spotted posting on TMOR using their official admin accounts. They’re on record saying they would be “watching” the r/conspiracy mod team, encouraging TMOR to follow suit. Shortly before my ban I noted, “r/conspiracy, you are a targeted community under assault. The reddit admins are complicit in the worst kinds of abuse and harassment, and they explicitly condone this behavior.”
Such blatant coordination is to be expected from an admin team that employs bona fide warmongering government agents like Jessica Ashooh. They actually suspended multiple users for even mentioning Ashooh’s name on r/conspiracy. They also had the audacity to try and ban us from even discussing her.
They also tried to ban us from mentioning a certain Salt Lake City daycare suspected of child trafficking.
And here’s when they tried to stop us from saying the name of a pedophile from a wealthy family. They later capitulated.
Oh, and the admins would really like you to forget all about “Antique Jetpack” and reddit co-founder Alexis Ohanian’s connection with NSA/CIA propaganda firm Stratfor.
And it’s not remotely significant that former reddit CEO Ellen Pao admitted she was partying with Ghislaine Maxwell in 2011 and knew Maxwell was trafficking children.
And the first user to get 1,000,000 “karma” points on reddit, the infamous power mod u/maxwellhill…? Yeah that’s totally not Ghislaine Maxwell herself, even though the account went dark immediately after her arrest and hasn’t posted since, despite years of the account obsessing over reddit with a history of discussing age of consent laws.
And reddit hiring Aimee Challenor and banning anyone, including moderators, who talked about it? Yeah they definitely were in the dark about Aimee continuing to work with her father who was actually torturing and raping children. The admins were super, super sorry about that one and said the new recruit hadn’t been “properly vetted.”
In all seriousness, it’s hard to imagine still using reddit today with a clean conscience. But I did what I could, when I could. The only other “large” subreddit I moderated was r/UFOs, though my activity there was decidedly less, as it was a smaller forum that required less moderation.
Last year, it was brought to my attention that certain terms and topics were routinely being censored on r/UFOs. This censorship was apparently originating from the mod team itself, of which I was a part. When the full picture became clear, I removed the offending mods and restored the sub to its pre-censorship days. My efforts in undoing this damage even resulted in positive reports from the mainstream, such as this VICE article.
The disconnect of being publicly commended by VICE (of all outlets) while being cast as public enemy #1 on reddit didn’t escape me. I had proven again and again that I was a champion for free speech. All of the users that we banned had a chance to appeal, and if they pledged to follow the rules, we would be more than happy to offer to unban them.
A tyrant, I wasn’t. And yet, at several points in time I could make the claim to be the most harassed, threatened and brigaded account on reddit, a dubious honor for which I felt no pride. While I was proud of my original research, I had been thrust into a role I didn’t really want anymore. But I didn’t see anyone else I trusted who was willing and able to replace me.
Instead of spending time researching ancient civilizations, exotic technology and the machinations of Big Pharma, I was combating trolls and shills on a conspiracy forum. They demanded too much time and effort. The new rules were effective, but they were tougher to implement, and they soon became an extra burden on the frequently over-tasked moderator team. One mod in particular had been doing the lion’s share of the busy work, while I relegated myself to addressing the routine shill brigades and spam accounts that would artificially push their stolen content to the front page.
Not surprisingly, with every bad actor we banned new accounts would soon take their place like a shill hydra. In their hypocritical stupor, they raged that the r/conspiracy mod team was giving preferential treatment to conspiracy theorists. Shocking, I know. This narrative is particularly weak. The entirety of reddit had been purged of wrongthink, and they still had the audacity to complain that the r/conspiracy mod team offered more leniency towards conspiracy theorists! In addition to having no shame, they have no tact.
For example, the mod team would likely remove a comment (not found in the pinned “meta” chain) that says something like “this is why r/conspiracy sucks.” This statement violates the “no-meta” rule by addressing the sub as a whole (a painfully common forum sliding tactic). Other examples include the infamous “r/conspiracy is T_D (the_donald) 2.0” as well as “r/conspiracy should bring back bigfoots and aliens.” Various permutations of the “bigfoot” comment in particular are perhaps the most glowing example of this activity.
On the other hand, if a comment evokes the meta in a positive light, the sentiment might be treated differently. For example, “stuff like this is what keeps me coming back to r/conspiracy” is a positive and constructive statement. Such an observation would typically not be removed. One would hope it’s self-evident why removing positive affirmations to the community is bad form and counter to the fostering of a healthy community.
Every time they perceived an “injustice” was perpetrated by the r/conspiracy mod team, you would think we had committed all manners of atrocities. They made sure these perceived injustices routinely echoed across reddit. Why wasn’t r/conspiracy banned like T_D and so many others? Was there someone still on the admin team actually advocating for us? Or is the reason more sinister?
It’s frequently speculated that it’s useful for the narrative managers to keep us all in one place. If they scatter us, we can digitally regroup and hit back from multiple angles. The rest of reddit is now fully controlled, and this leverage is used against the r/conspiracy community. Without their army of bots and useful idiots that comprise the vast majority of reddit, r/conspiracy would finally be able to reach its full potential. This is the same potential that the early version of reddit (and the internet in general!) was meant to reach before being co-opted.
The calls to have me removed from my position soon reached a fever pitch. To the deluded drones at TMOR, I was an existential threat to humanity. After all, they were sure I was a Russian and vaccine disinfo agent. With the amount of times I had seen TMOR users claim to have sent impassioned pleas to the reddit admins to have me banned, I was honestly surprised I wasn’t removed just to shut them up.
Ultimately, that seemed to be their goal, and it worked. Despite discussing some controversial topics, I followed the rules of reddit. In almost 10 years, I hadn’t had a single comment or thread removed by the admins. My record on reddit was pristine. They couldn’t get me on rule violations, and they couldn’t harass and threaten me until I quit. Instead, they opted to turn public sentiment against me.
By this time, many of the veteran r/conspiracy mods started to grow distant from reddit. It left the remaining few of us to do the majority of the work. There were times when I felt like I was essentially running the forum almost on my own, with maybe one or two other mods. I continued arranging AMAs, which can be found here.
I revitalized a “featured documentary” tradition and regularly updated the archives with the chosen films.
I spearheaded a new “Round Table” discussion feature that generated some of the most interesting threads in the history of r/conspiracy.
In my final year as mod, I also publicly documented the content the admins themselves were removing on r/conspiracy, metrics that only are accessible by the moderators of any given subreddit. For a year I extensively recorded these increasingly spurious removals in monthly “transparency threads.” I doubt the admins were pleased as I publicly documented their slamming shut of the Overton window.
These transparency reports received far less attention than they should have, as they were extremely informative. They showed that r/conspiracy was being deliberately sabotaged.
I spent much of my mod efforts on the comment sections, the true front line of r/conspiracy. I aggressively moderated the forum sliding trolls. As we became more and more inundated with this rule-breaking activity, I was forced to respond accordingly by often banning repeat offenders on sight if their history contained multiple previous rule infractions on our sub.
Sometimes entire threads would be swarmed with these artificial accounts, flooding the conversation with these violations. I did recognize the irony in “censoring” these comments to preserve the “freedom” of speech on our forum. The alternative was to allow this blatant manipulation to suffocate the conversation completely.
Because of our commitment to transparency, we publicly released the logs of our moderation actions, something unheard of for any other large sub on reddit. As a result, the narrative managers highlighted my actions in banning the numerous shills in an effort to portray me as a conspiracy “tyrant.”
While I fended off a veritable army of digital trolls, I remained committed to calling out the increasingly unhinged pro-vaccine support on reddit. The brigades during this time against anyone calling out vaccine propaganda were unprecedented in their severity.
By the end of 2019, I was ready for the big one. When videos started making their rounds allegedly showing Chinese people falling down in the street due to some “unknown” illness, their significance became immediately apparent. This was classic propaganda. This was the same pandemic theater we’d been calling out for years.
Keep in mind, after a decade of observing patterns on r/conspiracy, my ability in that respect was ferociously fine-tuned. It was immediately apparent that the users and threads promoting FUD regarding this “new” virus were extremely inorganic. Even more disturbing, I noticed the same pattern across the vast majority of alternative media outlets in the early stages of “coronavirus.” While the MSM and world authorities were downplaying the event, alternate media sites were abuzz with conspiracies, and the Wuhan lab origin was at the top of the list.
I saw the false dichotomy narrative being put in play. A story was being crafted for the mainstream, namely the virus had emerged naturally from a wet market in Wuhan. And a story was being crafted for the conspiracy theorists (a red herring) that the virus had instead been manipulated and emerged from a lab in Wuhan. They use the same playbook every time. Stay tuned, they may used it again if they try to stage an “alien” hoax to cover for when our own exotic technology is eventually disclosed.
In January I issued the most sincere warning of my entire history on r/conspiracy. I specifically noted that coronavirus fear porn was not organic and was targeted at both the narrative consumer and the conspiracy theorists. My warning was specifically directed at the conspiracy theorists not to be swept up with fear by the coming event. Here’s the thread, which I consider to be a crowning achievement of my digital legacy.
I felt compelled to shout this out back in January, 2020: “The staging of viral pandemics has the frightening ability to fool the brainwashed and the conspiracy researchers, if we aren't careful.” How did I know? I’d been documenting it on reddit for years and years. Here’s a list of many of these observations and warnings going back almost a decade.
r/conspiracy was still a force to be reckoned with at the time, and my coronavirus warning thread received a great deal of support. It resonated. Although some threads were pushing fear porn, these were almost entirely artificially boosted, as the genuine r/conspiracy community smelled a rat. Over the next few months I went in hard pushing back against coronavirus fear porn. I even revived some of my numerological speculation concerning COVID, a subject I had largely neglected over recent years.
If the global media and multiple world governments tell all of humanity that a virus may kill you if you step outside, what percentage of the population would automatically get so worked up in abject terror that they would literally cause themselves to be hospitalized with manifested symptoms, especially when they’re already being poisoned by Big Pharma? Spoiler: a lot.
Note: pathogens are absolutely being manipulated and released on accident and through biowarfare. Mother Nature does not tolerate these “frankenviruses” and quickly mutates them beyond recognition. Anything “artificial” released from Wuhan or elsewhere in 2019 is no longer a threat today. This is another reason why the “lab leak” theory initially was so fervently denied to the point of rabid deplatforming and censorship.
A “lab leak” origin may sound just as spooky as a naturally-evolved pathogen, but in reality it just means the “COVID’s here forever!” narrative falls flat on its face. Sadly, that won’t stop various rogue governments and news agencies from getting a little more fear porn mileage from the COVID gravy train.
This is not the time and place to discuss the details of what actually is causing deaths attributed to “COVID-19.” But it’s striking when considering the parallels to previous epidemics like Spanish flu and polio. The swine flu fiasco in particular was a practice round, and the yearly “flu season” is part of the regular propaganda process to maintain the fraud. Respected scientist Peter Doshi exposed the flu deception years ago, asking, “Are U.S. Flu Death Figures More PR Than Science?”
Medical errors are by some estimates the third most common cause of death per year in the US, with as many as 250,000 killed annually.
Add inflated “influenza/pneumonia” deaths to scores of medical murders, and you have hundreds of thousands of “deaths” that can be labeled whatever you want, especially if you are staging a pandemic. The inventor of the PCR Test, Kary Mullis, warned everyone that his tool was not for diagnosing disease. Mullis knew the “Fauci’s” were all frauds, and he was conveniently silenced just months before they would use his own test to usher in the global scam. Just read what the Rockefeller’s planned in their 2010 “Lock Step” or ask the folks who ran Event 201, a simulated coronavirus pandemic exercise that was held in October, 2019.
After the so-called swine flu epidemic, it emerged that the vast majority of alleged “swine flu” patients tested negative for H1N1. Legendary reporter Sharyl Attkisson (with whom I coordinated an AMA for r/conspiracy) essentially lost her job at CBS for reporting on this very fact.
The swine flu “epidemic” was a hoax. And yet...I found myself arguing with both the shills and the genuine conspiracy theorists alike over the swine flu narrative. There are apparently lots of people who are absolutely positive they had swine flu, even without a “positive” diagnosis. They can’t be convinced otherwise, even when faced with all of the evidence to the contrary.
There was no H1N1 epidemic. These people got sick like they always do, and their symptoms were amplified by social and media hysteria. And this was in the era before smartphones truly took off! Imagine the effectiveness of similar pandemic propaganda campaign in the era of social media…
The stage was set for a plandemic, and the public was perfectly primed with pro-vaccine propaganda to usher in the next phase of global subjugation. But the 2020 election had to happen first. Remember, to the narrative managers I’m the fascist pro-vax Russian-agent Trump-sycophant “top mind” of the largest “mainstream” conspiracy forum left on the web.
I really didn’t know what to expect in November, 2020. The unprecedented insanity of Russiagate and COVID was leaning me towards the possibility that Trump was indeed a thorn, and not a plant, but I remained unconvinced. The rabid reaction against Trump’s insistence that a vaccine would be available by the end of 2020, and his insistence upon certain widely available treatments strongly suggested to me he was attempting to “counter” the COVID coup.
They wanted COVID to last as long as possible, and the only way to wrap up the hoax sooner would be to have a vaccine developed as quickly as possible. Whether the vaccine itself is a placebo or actually another bioweapon is irrelevant to the fact that its mere availability will vastly reduce the overall sense of fear among the population. This fear is the essential ingredient in propping up the pandemic theater.
As the election loomed, it was beyond obvious the reddit admins were covering for Biden to an absurd degree. Remember, I had been documenting every removal made by the admins on r/conspiracy since December, 2019. I noticed a shift in admin behavior when they started removing content for “misgendering” and other generally innocuous “offenses” for the first time. If someone on r/conspiracy wanted to call Caitlyn Jenner a “man,” it would not be a violation of our rules. And yet, we were beholden to the mandate of reddit, inc. Users that engaged in such “misgendering” on r/conspiracy began to be disciplined by the admins.
Around the same time, the admins also began removing threads and comments overly critical of Biden, even content that was very clearly satirical. When the entirety of reddit had been a festering Trump hatefest for four straight years, this hypocrisy made the plan glaringly obvious: it was to be Biden.
They also bent over backwards to cover for Hunter Biden.
Despite the growing list of topics we were forbidden from discussing, the vast majority of these unmentionables didn’t appear to violate the reddit user agreement. This contributed to a markedly schizophrenic atmosphere on r/conspiracy and reddit in general. I also finally had my first comment removed by “Anti-Evil Operations,” the Orwellian moniker bizarrely chosen by the admin team to document when they purge content from the site.
My comment that apparently warranted admin intervention used the metaphor “shoot the messenger” to describe the insane persecution a whistleblower was experiencing. The admins claimed it was a “call to violence” with zero regard to the context of the statement, an all-too-familiar tactic of the rogue technocracy. It occurred to me that if they started to censor me for nothing then my time on reddit was growing short.
Even with Big Tech covering for Biden, I had a hard time seeing how they would pull it off. This was clearly the kind of candidate you picked if you wanted to lose. It was well known in conspiracy circles that Biden himself was a pedophile and his entire family was compromised by foreign and Deep State actors. To actually “beat” Trump with a senile racist pedophile in the SJW era would require an election theft on such a magnitude that it would stagger the imagination.
You would have to stage a pandemic about a year before the election. You would have to initially downplay the pandemic and then ramp up the rhetoric to 11 to panic the population. You would then use the “emergency” to gaslight and discredit the current POTUS by claiming he was “mismanaging” something that was almost entirely fabricated.
You would censor anyone who suggested medical treatments that have traditionally always helped counteract the effects of Big Pharma’s products, the very poisons being masqueraded as “pandemics.” You would have to use the panic to circumvent multiple state constitutions to allow election laws to be modified without going through the legal process via state legislatures.
You would have to allow an unprecedented number of mail-in votes. You would have to allow counting to continue for days so the fraud can be “fortified” in the states that weren’t up to snuff on election night. They would, and they did.
Wow, you really put your heart into this! This is something I respect in the deepest way.
To be honest with you, I exchanged with you in the whatever backstage subreddit there was where potentially there were some ideas thrown in, do you remember the page? I was fed up with the ignorance of the people in the sub and I wrote a message to the moderators, since they can do something... (I don't suppose you remember, it is just important for the story from my perspective). I wrote basically that we should do something about the ignorance and inability to act in this sub and I was surprised that I got so many messages from the moderators. One was from you and you accepted me in the group and provided me with a link. There were others who provided a link to the group and they also informed me that shills can be found even there, as a warning. That's kinda what you expect from honest people these days - freely warning you about the potential dangers they deal with on a daily basis.
So I went in this place and I tried to expose some shills in the subreddit. I got some replies from the mods (mainly you) that were explaining that it is not sufficient for a valid evaluation of a user as a shill... I thought this was bs and after several tries I thought you were an asshole... (I am giving it to you frankly, I hope you appreciate it at the end). However, after some time, I realized that the users I have provided may be just confused and I remember, one of the users was following a lot of weed pages, so it would seem as a person I give a crap about more than he gives a crap about himself... Nevertheless, I saw you were right and people shouldn't be judged immediately by their solo replies but by checking their accounts. The point here, is that you thought me a lesson that I personally learnt from you. Honestly. I mean, even if you don't believe me, I am glad to share it here and be able to transform it in words.
Later, I remember you were very active on the voting cases and after that, there was an article to portray you as an anti-semitic, which was so pathetic on their side... I think more people clearly saw Israeli propaganda as the bad guy, when the topic was US elections.... :D That really backfired on them. :D Anyway, you didn't give up when they blocked your account or suspended it - doesn't really matter how their suppression of free speech acted out, but you created this place and is now more active and truthful than r/conspiracy. I can say that because my account is still not blocked there and I am kinda active from week to week...
The point is that your refusal to give up gave strength to this page to grow and become a source of free speech. I know there are some shills lingering here waiting for their pathetic, immoral paycheck but it is still better than r/conspiracy at this point. There, it is usual for a post to get immediately downvoted to 0 and remain forever at 0 even if you get upvoted - immediately gets to 0. Many posts observing the strange results confirm the same thing. So, I salute you for your action to make this place and be so active in revealing the truth.
I will be honest with you, even though I remain anonymous as you are but hey... it's 2021 already... Anonymity is the key to living free now... Honestly, you are a modern hero of the current age. You have felt the beatings and despite of them, you continue to work towards others, as every saint does in their lifetime. Now, I won't go far as to call you a saint as you have to commit to others for the rest of your life for that, but I see a person who is being an example to those who seek a way to express themselves in the times of censorship - you are the main, if not - one of the main voices of freedom and justice - a modern day hero. But don't rest on what you have done - you have the potential to do more than any of us. Use these choices and create a legacy that will remain for others, so they can remember free speech and justice. Your continuous work in that direction is will prove others that being a hero is within their reach - please continue to share your work with others, so they can learn. I can say that I didn't learn immediately from you, but I greatly appreciate the lessons you've given me even after I reacted negatively initially to them.
It literally boils down to "acting for yourself" or "acting for others". It is clear which choice leads to a global improvement. I am glad you have taken it in the past, so you can share your example. I hope you continue to do so, so we can continue to learn. Thank you!