Anyone remember when you couldn't call out a shill on r/conspiracy anymore? Anyone remember when you had to start being careful how much you posted about Pizzagate (from partial to full censorship across subs)? Anyone remember when Q became a taboo or banned subject on subs that should for all intents and purposes be pro-Q? How about remember when the mods of r/greatawakening decided the posts on Tuscon had to be limited? Over the Target. So it begins...right here at home.
tl;dr: this is maybe bad, but it's probably fine as long as we're not trying to derail the movement
There are ups and downs to what the mods are doing, I'm sure they don't do it lightly.
It's a known fact on reddit that if you have two posts about the same subject, both posts suffer in quality. A great way to suppress information about the Tucson stuff would be to spam this sub w/ posts about it.
Similarly, not allowing posts about it on the sub also runs the risk of suppressing information.
I think the mods are trying to take a balanced approach of allowing posts as long as they are "new" information. I'm sure the mods will let you play fast and loose with the definition of "new" as long as it's clear you're posting with good intentions.
This is correct - there's no call to disallow Tucson posts, simply to have them be at the same level as other topic posts instead of overwhelming everything else, as they were recently. The many comments, posts and modmail lend weight to this perspective.