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Not to like be a conspiracy theorist, but WTF is going on that everyone everywhere all at once is introducing weird censorship laws? And now the UK with digital ID? What is coming that they don't want us talking about? We don't have this in the USA yet, but they keep trying to pass KOSA... what's really going on?
Okay, here's a wild conspiracy theory I've just made up.
Epstein's photo and video blackmail material has been lost/stolen/duplicated or otherwise out "in the wild". Before someone data dumps that on the internet they want to make sure they can quickly squash it from being accessed and put their own rules in place to be able to heavily punish and shut down those who don't quickly comply.
There's at least 4 "original" versions out there:
Epstein himself had originals at his island, (confiscated at the time of the investigation). And most likely a backup at his manhattan offices (taken from the safe under suspicious circumstances by an unknown party after the "fbi" raid left the filled safe open overnight, the next day the safe was empty).
Gislaine Maxwell, as a fully involved assistant, had a (partial, non video?) copy somewhere, for safekeeping, unclear what happened to it.
Then there was a rumor Russia pressured Epstein into "selling" them a copy.
Epstein is documented to have traveled to Russia and met with government officials well before his evil empire came crashing down.
The thing is, most of these original files are used to keep the other owners in check, if any one releases them they compromise everyone on there by mutual destruction.
I suspect even if Russia, or whatever other state has them, would leak it all it would come back to burn them, if this was not the case it would have been out there publicly already.