The real irony is this already happened. Well, there's a few ironies. But the 1st, there was a Facebook group with family member of the doc, which had about 30k(?) users.

People related to the (presumed-you'd have to be an idiot not to see it-somewhat proven but walked/got off the charges) corrupt public officials in the case, decided to infiltrate (call to arms/stalk/witch hunt) and took over the group, banned everyone they could while trolling who remained.

Then the main sub for rational discussion on the case gets taken over in a week or two, bullshit reasons are cited, and again, a group this time with 60k users, is broken up.

The irony on the second account, is that even though our users still kept in contact with the new family group on FB, for the most part unless it was authorized, no cross posting or information came from social media. Because the users respected MaM.

They would down vote shit posts and wanton speculation. If something came up, the recommendation from all our active users was contact Zellner (the lawyer). Most of us just post to get public information in the public domain though. Even that we can't be bothered.

So even if it wasn't intended,

Your bombastic and deriding postings, false accusations of witch hunting doxing and other inaccurate and frankly inflammatory claims combined with deletion of strong investigation created both a ghost town out of a once empowered subreddit and a stonger sense of purpose to those you attacked, banned and derided in your commentary.

This happened. And the claims that people were harassed is absolute horseshit from what the community is aware of.

There was one dude, who was a loon, and laughed out of our sub. He formulated his own plan to party crash x-mass at the doc's family's house, on his own blog as can be seen in the link.

Mods are citing this as a reason for the changes. Everyone knows this is a lie. Its like they are taking plays out of the corrupt officials in the doc.

Then you have another user. She claimed to be harassed, but only because she came to the forum, accusing someone she knew of participating in the crime. She was put in contact with the lawyer (KZ) -because thats what our sub does.

And once she realized it wasn't the person, she changed her opinion. Became very vocal about the protagonist's guilt. Okay. She then claims to get harassed. But in this time doesn't change her username. She could, at any time... Doesn't. Then complains.

Change your username(?) The harassment though doesn't stem from MaM, why? Because MaM users her speculation about her 'person' (she accused herself) and they down vote it, set people straight, etc

Beyond that, no one as far as the sub knows has been harassed. In fact, the sub was applauded by the lawyer, the old lawyers, and people have been in contact, with open access and permission to repost info.

Maybe its plausible someone close to the case complained, and claimed something that just wasn't happening. It wouldn't be the first time an effort was made to shut down or stifle conversations related to uncovering public corruption in this case.

Because even if Avery is guilty, there's some serious problems with how he was convicted.

But until now, most people really had no idea. They hadn't seen how someone could change the dialog, change the truth, so easily. Just by stating: "this happened" the mosts have rewritten or have been trying to rewrite what happened, and by deleting posts, banning people, ignoring, making fun, trolling, etc they show just how real and how easily abuse of power is exercised.