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If you're looking for something cast-iron then I don't have it, but this is really a numbers game given that we only need 33 bits of information to deanonymise
by phpnode 4y ago
If you're looking for something cast-iron then I don't have it, but this is really a numbers game given that we only need 33 bits of information to deanonymise people on the internet. So let's count them and I'll let you decide how many bits to award each nugget.
1. The account's name is maxwellhill and Ghislaine Maxwell's surname is Maxwell and used to live at a place she referred to as Maxwell Hill.
2. The account was the first to reach 1m reddit karma and in the congratulatory post Alexis Ohanian revealed that he knew the poster in real life and that they'd been there since almost the beginning.
3. Ghislaine Maxwell is known to have attended events with Reddit staff in the early days, as confirmed by former CEO of reddit Ellen Pao.
4. maxwellhill has a December birthday, Ghislaine Maxwell's birthday is 25th December.
5. maxwellhill stopped posting just 2 days before GM's arrest, previously they'd posted almost every day for 14 years.
6. The few gaps when maxwellhill was not posting align with dates GM is known to have attended events including her mother's funeral.
7. GM's father was a known and prolific media manipulator, maxwellhill was repeatedly accused of manipulating reddit before the arrest.
8. maxwellhill posted prolifically about ocean conservation, GM had a startup called TerraMar which was focussed on ocean conservation.
9. maxwellhill mostly uses British English, GM is from Britain.
10. maxwellhill repeatedly complained about over-zealous child protection laws, posted articles suggesting CSAM should be legalised.
11. maxwellhill was careful to stress the difference between pedophilia and ephebophilia - a distinction important to Epstein and his apologists but not to most normal people.
12. maxwellhill has still not posted to reddit since the arrest, despite it having significant political and financial value.
13. After all of the noise of the accusations, no one at Reddit has actually denied that GM was maxwellhill.
I'm not saying this is conclusive, hence saying "probably", but that's a lot of bits.
- consumer451 4y agoI was the one who asked, and yeah... that's at least quite plausible.