Interesting so how deep does the conspiracy go? Is a big portion of Reddit mods trying to cover-up "Epstein" crimes?
No, just the ones that were linked to u/maxwellhill, the lead moderator of r/worldnews, r/politics, and r/technology:
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-8506313/Ghislaine-M...
Some more radical pro-censorship subreddits decided to just ban anyone posting on any of those subreddits, and the sentiment spread to larger subreddits, like eg. /r/pics).
Combine conspiracies and covid, and "spreading covid fake news" was the official reason to ban people just by posting to any of such subreddits.