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A place here on Lemmy to keep track of the release of the files, but also to explore what’s already available, and why – with enough exposure – this could bring the man down (though probably not his regime).
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When they said they're redacting the files to protect the victims, its pedo talk, they believe the pedo's have a sickness and its the girls taking advantage of them, not the other way around.
~~they believe pedos have a sickness~~
No they don't. They believe they have every right to do what they did and still do. They're not being respectful from a dubious moral standpoint. They're fucking lying to protect themselves.
They somehow failed to properly censor the nude photos of victims in the files (i.e they redacted them but fucked it up like with first set of files) but DID properly redact the email addresses of several key repeat visitors, one of them thought to be Benjamin Netanyahu.
In this case there is no excuse to be saying that the victims are taking advantage of them. This is a system which is designed on abuse of women, teenagers, children and possibly even babies - A whole island designed for this, for rich oligarchs.
Also the story about illnesses doesn't hold up in the majority of cases as attraction to teenagers is excluded in DSM-5. Of course, there is also evidence of actual children taking part; but even so, it is a meticulously designed system where it was only them doing the abusing.
Also the redactions are done extremely poorly: Clear photos are being referenced of the victims without their informed consent - yet the abusers names are censored.
wtf. in what world do you turn things around like that. Maybe having been groomed and all....? I don't know