More Glitches in the ATS Matrix

[FlyingClayDisk]

Well, at the risk of stating the obvious...What if the continued operation of the site was being funded by some NGO or cover company/person for someone connected to the US government, or other government.  What if the intent was to get an gauge the 'temperature of the water' as it relates to political matters, conspiracy leanings and globalist goings on?  One thing about ATS is, it does have a much higher than average intelligence and maturity level among its membership.  Sure, there are lots of websites out there which deal with politics, conspiracy and globalist issues, but not at the same level ATS does.  And, despite what some may say about biases on ATS, there is a pretty high degree of freedom.  Plus, there is also a pretty good degree of balance; in other words, there is generally good point and counterpoint debate.  Take for example a site like Reddit; it's a free for all and it's chaos for the most part; there's a billion members, but the site has the collective intelligence of a 5th grader.  Posts over 2 sentences get down-voted into oblivion because 95% of the membership engages via their cellphones, so the voting criteria is heavily skewed.  Further, the site is skewed heavily left.  So, if you want to learn about LGBTQ and democratic initiatives, Reddit is the place to be, but outside of this it's a zero.  Failbook is the same way, but worse; FB is troll-central. 

Today ATS has lost a lot of its membership and participation, but there's still a lot of historical data there when this lack of participation wasn't the case.  When ATS goes away, all of this will be lost.  Even if this historical data was replicated on another site, it's doubtful that site would ever have the standing that ATS had at one point in time.  Plus, the government is historically slow to react to current events.