As ridiculous as FE seems, prima facie, until it's proven false, I keep my mind open to plausible explanations for why:
A) the moon landings were all fake and we've never "been back"
B) there are no actual photos of the entire earth from space (unless you believe the sizes of the continents are changing by 30-60% every decade or so)
C) the only people on earth that we give billions of dollars to, to go to space, are faking any, let alone much (or all) of the footage, using green screens, parabolic "zero gravity" flights, actual hair spray to make their hair stand up, underwater studios (unless you believe in air bubbles in space)
You might say "but these items have better explanations than FE". Well let's hear those theories also. Let's not shoot down those who are proposing an outlandish, yet mostly comprehensive, theory, one that explains these anomalies as well as a plethora of others, like how did they use radio frequencies that don't even purportedly bounce off the ionosphere to communicate hundreds of miles during WWII, how can the horizon be seen above an item whose entirety should be hidden behind it, why is Antarctica, aside from a tiny portion, entirely off limits to most civilians, how was Felix Baumgartner able to slowly float up to nearly 30 miles without drifting a thousand or more miles because of the earth's rotation, etc.
Suggestions that these things are not even worthy of discussion, on a forum dedicated to conspiracy theories, have to be disingenuous.
Original Research
Let's not also forget that FE researchers are literally the only conspiracy theorists doing original research. These people will buy lasers that cost thousands of dollars, cameras, etc., and go to some large body of water (large lakes, bays, etc.) where they can test their hypothesis with an actual experiment. Everything else I see on here is pure speculation, or videos of interviews involving various professionals with dubious backstories (Malone, etc.).
Does it Matter
Pertaining the "would it even matter" argument, you honestly don't need a lukewarm IQ to imagine how much it would matter, if FE was real.
Principles
Most of us are here because we couldn't speak freely elsewhere, because "hate has no place on our platform" type communist bullshit. Now we're going to make the same kind of rules, especially banning arbitrary content that is desired by a clear majority, on a platform with already-existing mechanisms for getting rid of low quality postd (downvoting, hiding)? If FE posts are banned, this place is no better than TGA, and don't even pretend to be pro constitution when you can't even stand up for free speech about a conspiracy theory in a conspiracy theory forum.
I'm out of here, for good, if FE is banned. Aside from spam, illegal, doxxing, banning has no place on our platform.
If it's not applied equally, then I agree, but as long as it's applied to everybody, regardless of the topic, I don't think it's censorship to throttle somebody's post velocity. For example, if you were only allowed to make one post per hour, or if you were only allowed to make a certain number of posts based on your karma level, etc., meaning new users can't post as often, etc., and especially if posting removed some of your karma, meeting that there was a cost associated with posting, so that if you build up a bunch of karma, it wouldn't give you a license to post a bunch of spam all of the sudden.
That's an interesting idea! Further, a new(ish) account could be given a limitation on creating posts that's "free," after which it costs them fake internet points. (Which aren't so fake if you lose status to post, go back to being a handshake, etc)
I like this idea because it gives people choice and freedom :)
I have no idea if it's possible with the software this site runs on, or if mods can create that on one .win without changing everything across the whole platform. Theoretically, posts could be handled separately from comments, and there might be some rationale for that.
This could make modding it less tedious ...
Exactly, and also the concept of "stamina" can be useful; for example, as you gain more karma overtime, you could also build more stamina, and stamina could be temporarily depleted without actually removing any of your karma permanently, until you continue to post after you run out of stamina. So for example, let's say you have 10 stamina, and it costs 5 stamina to make a post and 1 stamina to make a comment, and at your current karma level you are building 10 stamina per hour; that would mean that you are able to make 1 post and 5 comments per hour without depleting any of your karma. There are some video games that use stamina like this, where if you keep going after you run out of stamina you start depleting your health.
Thanks for your reply, and pardon any typos in this, total voice to text.